I'm pretty sure Oracle do in fact support db's on VMWare - there's a metalink note about it somewhere. The caveat they add is that if you find a problem, you need to be able to reproduce under non-VMWare conditions. I'm currently working with a company who have one big IBM box and they are running Oracle Apps on it with 3 virtual machines (2xapp server, 1 x database). I still don't think its the smartest thing they've done...but it does all work (so far) hth connor On 6/15/05, mhthomas <qnxodba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, >=20 > Just got back from the travelling VMWare seminar. It was great. >=20 > In my opinion, from what I saw at the seminar and reading the current > Oracle support position, I expect Oracle to change and fully support > and/or certify on at least one version of VMWare. I can remember Larry > on stage saying he would not support LINUX, too. I might not have > expected this before attending the seminar. Maybe Oracle is already > working with VMWare to take advantage of virtualization, to expand > Oracle's grid or whatever, and I'm not aware. Who knows? >=20 > For one example, Intel is building virtualization into a future CPU > and is working with VMWare. I expect Oracle will want to run on these > production servers when they start being deployed. VMWare mentioned > the ESX client virtual machine gets a CPU by socket, rather than > confusing variations with hyperthreading. Another example, running > servers can be migrated and/or balanced to other hosts based on > utilization. The comparisons of MS Virtual PC and VMWare were > logically summarized by MS' desupport of Virtual PC. There was so much > good information in the seminar its not possible to repeat everything. >=20 > As consolation prize, if you don't like the seminar, the free copy of > Workstation is nice. I thought one free copy was good until I found > out about the VMWare Technology Network for developer's and testers, > including all their products for an annual fee. :-) >=20 > Regards, >=20 > Mike Thomas > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l >=20 --=20 Connor McDonald =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D email: connor_mcdonald@xxxxxxxxx web: http://www.oracledba.co.uk "Semper in excremento, sole profundum qui variat" -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l