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Is Red Hat 9.4 KVM a supported hypervisor for the deployment of Oracle 19.26 on RHEL 9.4 OS?

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MOS Doc ID 417770.1 indicates that while Oracle products - e.g., database, are supported on an Oracle Linux KVM guest VM, Oracle products are NOT supported on a Red Hat Linux KVM guest VM (line 28 in details). The specific line is as follows:

  • Oracle Products are not certified to run on virtual machines/guests provided by Xen or KVM offerings by Red Hat, Novell, SUSE, Ubuntu, Citrix, Nutanix, or XenSource.

However, the apparent intent of this document is clarify supported configurations for the deployment of Oracle Linux on virtualized and emulated environments vs. clarification of what specific virtualization and emulation platforms are certified for deployment of Oracle database running on an OS other than Oracle Linux. In my particular scenario, Oracle Linux is neither the KVM hypervisor or the guest VM OS. Rather, Red Hat 9.4 KVM would be the hypervisor and RHEL 9.4 would be the guest OS. Per the below Oracle Installation guide, the 'Supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Distributions for x86-64' section clearly indicates that RHEL

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