Oracle Partners with VMware to Allow Linux to Run on Windows Servers

Oracle now offers special VMware that allows Linux to run inside a Windows server

 

http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/linux/vmware/README_SUSE.pdf

With this informative how-to guide, one can understand and install this user friendly tool,  that will allow a user to evaluate Oracle 10g within a Linux system in an existing Windows environment.

Follow the installation directions below and in will be up and running with preinstalled and configured Oracle software running inside a SuSE Virtual Machine.

This guide informs users of what is included in the Oracle on SuSE Linux Evaluation DVD package:

- README_ORACLEONLNXEVAL.TXT
- Oracle Universal Installer (OUI, Used to install this kit)
- VMware Workstation v4.5.2 Installation Binary (Supplied
produced using v4.5.2 build 8848)

Also, included in the DVD kit are:

- SuSE Enterprise Linux 8 Service Pack 3 (The Linux Operating System)
- Oracle 10g Release 1 (10.1.0.2) (The Database Server)
- OCFS v1.0.12 (Cluster File system used by Oracle Real Application
Clusters)
- Oracle Enterprise Manager (Used to monitor and control the Database)
- HTML DB 10g (Quick Application Development Tool)
- JDeveloper 10g (General Application Development Tool)
- Toy Store (A Web Storefront Application Created Using JDeveloper 10g)

This indispensable guide gives details about each piece of software running within the VMware Virtual Machine.

Toy Store is an ADF (Oracle Application Development Framework) application that was created using Oracle JDeveloper 10g to simulate a storefront on the web.