On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 14:40 +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: > Do you plan to have access to that database in parallel to having that > VMware WIndows running?
There will be multiple VMs running on the same machine. > 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. I think the solution will be one Windows VM running Oracle (possible with the DB files on Samba) and the other VMs accessing that Oracle instance. > 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. Understandable but these DB files are on the same physical machine, different OS (Linux VMware host). Thanks. -- Simon Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
