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Archive of posts tagged VMware

Installing OBIEE 11.1.1.3.0 on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.5

I took some notes and screenshots whilst I installed Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11.1.1.3.0 in an 11gR2 database running on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.5…they are on the wiki section here. The installation was on a Virtual Machine running in VMWare Workstation 7.1. Comments and corrections welcome.

Installing Oracle 11gR1 on a Fedora Core 10 64 bit VM

Just a note, to myself more than anything, about what extra packages are required by a 64 bit installation of Fedora Core 10, when trying to install Oracle 11gR1. The installation I undertook was on a FC10 64 bit VM running under VMWare Server 2.0 running on top of FC10 64 bit OS. Tim, as [...]

Cursor keys not working in Virtual Server 2 VM

Posted as a reminder to myself about how to fix this issue… I couldn’t get some of the cursor keys to work properly on my virtual machines running under VMWare Virtual Server 2 on Fedora 10 x86_64. Kept giving funny behaviour like bringing up the screen capture applet! A bit of searching the net came [...]

VM articles on my new Wiki

I wanted a place to store notes that I could write up from anywhere…but weren’t necessarily relevant to put in a blog, so I now have a Wiki on my website. Don’t get excited, I’m not planning on hosting a full blown wiki for open editing – it’s just for me. Amongst the things on [...]

Vista on VMWare

I’ve not got Microsoft Vista yet but my brother Steve tells me that I might need to read this link in order to install it onto a VMWare Workstation VM. I must remember this when my copy of Vista comes through on my Microsoft Action Pack subscription.