Hi,
On 5 Nov 2014, at 12:42 pm, Peter Ross <Petros.Listig@fdrive.com.au> wrote:
I have to admit not really to understand the "support this or that virtualisation"
I misused some words and apologise: In the case of Oracle in particular, there is a difference between "supported" and "certified" - we support Oracle products on any platform to the best of our ability, but if we can't reproduce the issue internally, we may need to engage the HW/virtualisation vendor. The level of this cross-vendor support differs based on the vendor relationship and whether joint support is available.
And I have not read: "Product XY only works on Dell T610 and HP ML 150". I can install it on a "no name box" as well. Why not on any VM?
We have hardware certification[1], just like we have virtualisation certification. We have certified Oracle DB on Oracle VM and Hyper-V and it's supported on VMware and KVM.
(BTW: Is Oracle DB supported in a Oracle VirtualBox?)
Yes, for development and test purposes. Not for production use, AFAIK. Then again, the performance you'd get in VirtualBox probably doesn't meet your production needs anyway. Hope that makes things a little clearer from our perspective. Cheers, Avi [1] http://linux.oracle.com/hardware-certifications