vmware server 2.0 beta 1 – free version is nightmare and i used it with in 30 mins i rolled back to old stable version.
vmware 2.0 beta dead slow – confusing menus -woret performer even on my 1 gb ram system with only 128 mb linux pc – i faced so many troubles. so avoid vmware 2.0 beta now.
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virtualization … on software level npow oracle started its play in virtualization game. oracle released freeware – virtual ware so that you can run oracle producats as well asany other applications in vms. Oracle claiming that its vmware software is 3x faster than current players. What VMware – senior player in vm market going to release to win the field ? Microsoft also released vm in windows 2008 server … so ….. vmware has tough time as many big big players comming to market.
Anyway its very good move as now we can reduce risk data center space issues by virtulization.
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Today i installed oracle apps 11i on Linux using vmware. good experience – oracle 11i installation is tricky. you can do as easy as 1-2-3 or you can lost in /dev/null 
basically you will find lot of tutorial in net which are not correct !! at least for RedHat enterprise Linux. Now i am going put tutorial about oracle apps installation. Remember you need to have oracle metalink access as you require patch from oracle. “THEN” only you can install apps on rhel 4 otherwise – you can’t.
you requires 1 GB of ram 90GB of hard disk space – RedHat enterprise Linux 3 or 4 ( 4 is better less steps to install) . SDo stay tuned for my own version of working tutorial. IT SHOUKD WORK for you not like other tutorials.
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