There were well known performance issues running Windows on OracleVM (even documented on MOS) - has that changed? Partitioning with VMWare is not recognized as hard partitioning by Oracle - it's specifically listed as an example of "soft partitioning" here: http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/partitioning.pdf Regards, Brandon From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tim Hall Windows virtualization? Another non-issue. When you are virtualizing servers, you will presumably be using bare-metal hypervisors, like Oracle VM or VMware ESX. They run on the hardware directly and you run VMs on top of them. You can use Oracle VM or ESX to virtualize Windows, like any other x86 OS. ________________________________ Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message or attachments hereto. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of this company shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it.