Setup and use of oVirt on CentOS7
Today, I’ll explain how to install and use oVirt: a nice virtualization tool for Linux, which is based on KVM. I installed the current production version 4.3.8 on a …
Tag: virtualization
Resolving issue: Oracle Virtual Box and Windows 10 – Call to WHvSetupPartition failed VERR_NEM_VM_CREATE_FAILED
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 …
Minikube on Windows. Hyper-V vs Vagrant/VirtualBox
Kubernetes is a system for running and coordinating containerized applications across a cluster of machines. Minikube runs a single-node Kubernetes cluster and can be used for local development. In …
Virtualization on Windows 10 with Virtual Box, Hyper-V and Docker Containers
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 …
Virtualization on the Oracle Database Appliance S, M, L
One of the great advantages of the Oracle database Appliance HA is the possibility of Virtualization through OracleVM. This virtualization wasn’t possible for the other members of the Oracle …
Saving money by understanding Oracle licensing part 2
In part 1 the basics were explained. In this part II other topics will be treated like virtualizing, engineered systems, SE2, Unlimited License Agreements, Cloud and other stuff. Whenever …
Reflections after Oracle OpenWorld 2015 – Infrastructure as a Service – and as a Product – on Compute, Linux, Private Cloud Machine, Storage, Network and more
If you want to be a cloud provider with a complete portfolio, that means you need to offer Infrastructure as a Service. That is where some cloud providers start(ed) …
Resources for JavaOne 2015 session: Java Developer Intro to Environment Management with Vagrant, Puppet, and Docker (BOF2817)
During JavaOne 2015, I present a Birds of Feather session (BOF 2817) on Docker for Java Developers – in combination with Vagrant and Puppet (and leveraging Virtual Box) (Monday …
Vagrant, Docker, VirtualBox and the Graphical Desktop for GUI applications in Docker Containers
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 …
Vagrant and Docker followed by Puppet to provision complex environments
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 …
Vagrant and Docker – Next and Advanced steps with folders, ports, volumes, linking and more
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 …
Next step with Docker – Create Image for Oracle Database 12c using Puppet
In a previous article – https://technology.amis.nl/2015/03/15/docker-take-two-starting-from-windows-with-linux-vm-as-docker-host/ – I have discussed my first steps with Docker. With Windows as my host environment I used Vagrant to create a VirtualBox VM …