Oracle Virtual Machine (OVM) LAB on VirtualBox
Oracle Virtual Machine (OVM) 3.1.1. was released on the 8th May 2012 and finally it's supported on VirtualBox. This is great news for anyone who wants to give installing an OVM Lab a go. I gave it a go. I created 3 VirtualBox guests: Openfiler for iSCSI with a 40GB virtual disk for chopping up into LUNs and iSCSI. Oracle Linux 6.0 on which I installed OVM 3.1.1. in Demo mode. This guest has 4GB of RAM assigned to it and a 25GB HD. Probably a bit big, but OVM is a large application with an Oracle XE database and Oracle Weblogic services installed, I thought better safe than sorry. Oracle Virtual Server 3.1.1. This guest had just a 4GB HD and 1536MB of RAM which I figured would be just enough to get 1 virtual machine up and running on it. My VirtualBox is configured with a couple of host only networks: vboxnet0 => 192.168.56.0/24 => Management network. I also have dnsmasq configured on this network to serve IP addresses via DHCP to clients on this network. Dns