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If you’ve ever tried to install Oracle, you know it’s not easy. Even for people who do this for a living, an Oracle Database install is extremely time consuming and not something that anyone looks forward to attempting. Especially when it comes to Oracle on Linux, where just installing the Linux Operating System with the right libraries and configuration can be torture.

Enter VMware and their Virtual Machine technology and one of their newest products, the VMware Player. This is a free piece of software that allows anyone to run an existing virtual machine on their computer. Note that I said run - the VMware Player does not allow you to create a new virtual machine from scratch and install your operating system of choice into it — they have non-free software that does this. But it does allow you to run a virtual machine that has been created by someone else and already has the Operating System installed and configured.

In this case, the virtual machine includes Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle Database version 10g. In theory, this should make installing and running the Oracle Database under Linux a simple (and dare I say pleasant) task. All you should have to do is install the VMware Player and then download and start the Oracle / Red Hat Virtual Machine and fire up Oracle.

I say in theory because I haven’t actually done it yet. And from looking at some of the Oracle information on this virtual machine, I have a feeling that (in true Oracle fashion) it’s not going to be as easy as I hope. I am definitely going to try this — I need to install and work with Oracle 10g anyways and maybe this will make life a little easier — and I will write about my experiences with it here as soon as I do. For those of you who want to go ahead and try it out now, the best place to start is at the VMware website.

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