On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Simon Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 18:04 +0900, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > > Can anyone confirm whether Oracle 9i running under Windows will work > if > > > it's DB files are stored on a samba share? > > > > > > I have to try and run Mincom's Minescape under Windows but want the > data > > > and DB shared via Samba. > > > > .. why do you think this would be a good idea? > > because the instance of Windows will be running under VMware server (or > Workstation) and I like to keep the data outside the VM where it can > also be shared with other instances of the app. > > What are you thinking? Do you plan to have access to that database in parallel to having that VMware WIndows running? Because if so then Joel Heenan's solution is the right one - run Orcale 9i on the host and have it accessed from the Windows under VMware. If you don't need parallel access and don't want to run Oracle on a separate host then maybe another solution would be to import an LVM (or a plain file) into the VM guest as a separate virtual disk. Generally, the advise I remember (at least for Postgres) is that running databases on top of network file systems is a bad idea at least for performance, but I never tried this personally. --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
