Category: Virtualization and Oracle VM
I’ve used Vagrant since 2015 in combination with Virtualbox for creating development machines. Recently however I’m experiencing more issues with Virtualbox. For example CPUs getting stuck when assigning multiple …
Oracle VM is end-of-life and is, since March 2021, in extended support1. In looking for a replacement hypervisor AMIS has turned to KVM. Oracle itself also uses KVM, albeit …
Like so many colleagues and fellow developers around the world, the latest Windows Update also messed up my machine’s ability to successfully run Oracle Virtual Box. When running vagrant …
TL;DR: • Using GraalVM Java applications can be compiled into native standalone executables (will be demonstrated). • Native executables of small Java programs startup blazingly fast, use considerably less …
VirtualBox networking is extremely flexible. With this flexibility comes the challenge of making the correct choices. In this blog, the different options are explained and some example use cases …
Some quick notes to regenerate a corrupted Oracle VM manager repository database. How did we discover the corruption? The MySQL repository databases was increasing in size, the file “OVM_STATISTIC.ibd” …
For the upgrade of Oracle VM Server 3.1.1 to version 3.4.3 we decided to create a new repository and mount this repository to the current Oracle VM environment. After …
Some quick notes to “pin” (or hard partition) a virtual machine to a specific core. Download OVM utils which is found in patch 13602094 (Oracle Support): ORACLE VM 3.0 …
The topic of quickly creating an Oracle development VM is not new. Several years ago Edwin Biemond and Lucas Jellema have written several blogs about this and have given …
In this sequel of part one I will show how you can upload your own (Oracle) Linux 7 image in the IAAS Cloud of Oracle. This post will use …
Recently I started working on a brand new HP ZBook 15-G3 with Windows 10 Pro. And I immediately tried to return to the state I had my previous Windows …
I always like to know what is installed in the servers that I need to use for databases or Weblogic installs. Whether it is in the Oracle Cloud or …
Sometimes I create a VirtualBox disk for usage in a VM with a certain size. I think it will be enough for what I want to use the VM …
The context is: Windows laptop running Virtual Box. I have received a VM from a colleague that contains an Ubuntu (16.04 LTS ) based environment. The VM runs nicely. …
A while ago I published an article about the ODA X6-2S and X6-2M, the new entry level machines for small business. And since then Oracle introduced the ODA X6-2L …
In my previous post Network considerations on an ODA X5-2 I described a solution where I created a private network to optimize network performance between the components running on …
When you buy an Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) X5-2 off the shelve, you will get a machine with four times 10Gb copper Ethernet (bonded into two interfaces) for public …
Oracle offers a fine machine called the X5-2. Not to be confused with the ODA X5-2, which comes with sophisticated database software. The X5-2 is just bare metal. The …
The objective of this article: prepare an environment for experimenting with Oracle StreamExplorer using two Docker containers inside a Linux VM running on my Windows laptop. And with the …
I came across a simple Google Chrome Addon called Simple Docker GUI. It provide a GUI that allows for easy insight in and some management of Docker containers and …
Although perhaps not a common occurrence, I would still like to be able to sometimes run GUI applications inside a Docker container. This may be required because an installer …
The Docker container build process has some limitations. The Docker file can quickly become unwieldy. Besides, by and large the Docker file has us execution fairly low level instructions …
This article is a continuation of the introduction to the combination of Vagrant and Docker that I started here: First steps with provisioning of Docker containers using Vagrant as …
Note: the next set of (more advanced) steps with Vagrant and Docker are discussed in this article: Vagrant and Docker – Next and Advanced steps with folders, ports, volumes, …
Lately several people asked me how they should go about with upgrading their OVM 3.2.x environment to 3.3.x They have the backend repository running on an Oracle Database, which …
Recently I found myself in the unique position of having access to the beta version of the Oracle Cloud to get a glimpse at the future as Oracle sees …
Recently I came across the situation where I knew for a fact that my sessions to the database were dead because I pulled the power plug out of my application …
When Oracle Exalogic is delivered in you data center and you implemented Exalogic as a virtual platform, the Exalogic Guest Base Template (EGBT) is based on Oracle Linux 5.8. …
Ben je een ADF ontwikkelaar? Houd dan donderdag 14 augustus vrij in je agenda! Want op die dag komt Katarina Obradovic, Product Manager voor ADF Data Visualizations, een sessie …
Outline This post shows you how to setup an Oracle 11g database VM with the use of Vagrant and Puppet in straightforward steps. Anybody can execute this without knowledge …
This post is intended to be a dummy guide, best practices, or whatever you call it… about setting up a network while working with virtual boxes on a desk- …
To build an Oracle 12C RAC database – on Virtual Boxes – there’s at least shared storage needed for ASM, and a DNS-server for the SCAN-addresses. Several methods can …
During the last few months, I have been asked a couple of times to assist in solving problems with crashing Virtual Machines in Oracle VM environments. Failing disk checks …
Wil je als ontwikkelaar met Oracle Service Bus (OSB), onderdeel van de Oracle SOA Stack, aan de slag op een project; als beheerder OSB willen beheren en monitoren; of …
The last few weeks I was busy re-writing pf my puppet WLS module so it fully supports the power of Puppet 3 (thanks for more than 4000 downloads on puppet …
Already a year has passed since I wrote about WebLogic and Fusion Middleware provisioning with Puppet. In this year provisioning got a great boost with the popularity of DevOps …
I have come across customers running their Virtual Machines (VM) on Oracle VM 2.x wanting to migrate them to Oracle VM 3.x Most of the time the engineers think …
