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Run Oracle VM Manager in VMware VM??

921503Mar 2 2012 — edited Jun 3 2012
Yes, I know it's sounds a little clugy but that is what my customer is asking. They do not want to provision another physical server simply to be the VM Manager.

Is it supported to install the Oracle VM Manager inside of a VMware virtual machine?

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Dude!
Probably not VMware but free Oracle Virtualbox, which does the same.

Quick Start Guide for the VirtualBox Template for Oracle VM Manager

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/vm/template-1482544.html
922188
Yes, it works wery well on VMware ESXi
Dude!
Like its predecessor ESX, ESXi is a "bare-metal" hypervisor.

According to http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&externalId=2003936

+"The Unbreakable Enterprise kernel is not supported on any version of ESX/ESXi host. "+ The requirements for the latest version of Oracle OVM are Oracle Linux 5 Update 5 64-bit or later. As of 5.6, the UEK kernel is default.
Avi Miller-Oracle
Dude wrote:
+"The Unbreakable Enterprise kernel is not supported on any version of ESX/ESXi host. "+ The requirements for the latest version of Oracle OVM are Oracle Linux 5 Update 5 64-bit or later. As of 5.6, the UEK kernel is default.
Oracle VM Manager doesn't require the UEK. You can boot back into the Red Hat compatible kernel and still run Oracle VM Manager, under VMware ESXi.
user12892082
We have oracle vm manager running as a guest on vmware ESXi. Imported Templates etc all is well, except when trying to launch the Oracle Virtual Machines Console, Get a VNC error. tightvnc is installed were you able to open the virtual machines consoles?
Kirill.Boyko
We are running VM manager 3.0.3 on OEL 5.8 on top of ESXi. Together with yum/nfs virtual server on OEL 6.2 with UEK and btrfs on top of the same ESXi. Works like a charm for more than 3 months. Now planning to installl separate virtual machines on ESXi for EM 12c, because we have quite a
big pool of Oracle VMs to manage.
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