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On 10/18/2011 11:22 AM, Richard Pieri wrote: > On Oct 18, 2011, at 11:07 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: >> First, does anyone know if VMWare Player 4 will support a 64-bit guest >> on a 32-bit laptop. > It will not. 64-bit guests require 64-bit CPUs. I am pretty sure that VMWare Workstation will host a 64-bit guest on a 32-bit host. >> Second, if the laptop has a 64-bit CPU, but a 32-bit OS (Windows XP). > This should work if the laptop has VT-x and it is enabled. There are 2 settings in the Thinkpad BIOS. >> A related question that I'll probably get answered a bit later. >> We have Oracle XE configured on these cloned VMs. One coworker things >> that we have to reinstall Oracle. I'd like to be able to retain the data >> (schemas, roles, and table spaces). > Your cow-orker is mistaken. Data is data. Even if you use raw volumes. A copy of the container is a copy of the container, and you can verify this with MD5 sums. Licensing may be an issue but that's a different issue than it not working at all. I just verified. I started Oracle-xe as a service and I was unable to connect. There is an oracle configuration utility that I can run. I agree that it should not need a reinstallation. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:3BC1EB90 PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90
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