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You can purchase Oracle VM from the Oracle Shop

Oracle VM Premier Limited (one system max two cpus) @ $499

Oracle VM Premier (one system any num cpus) @ $999

http://communities.vmware.com/message/876393

VirtualBox (now owned by Sun) is asking for help on their forum. QEMU and its kernel module run on FreeBSD at this moment

and

people in the FreeBSD community raised a bounty (http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/2007cb.html) to have someone port VMware 6 to FreeBSD.

whichever way you look at it it seems that “official” VMWare/EMC will be the last !

according to http://www.novell.com/connectionmagazine the latest version (10.3) of openSUSE now includes VirtualBox & Xen virtualisation platforms

If you are using CentOS 5 , Oracle Enterprise 5 or Red Hat Enterprise 5 as a VMware host or guest you can edit /etc/yum.conf and add a line

exclude=kernel*

this should prevent yum updating your kernel and thus breaking vmware services modules in vmware server and vmware services modules in vmware guest tools

also see

http://www.linuxmanpages.com/man5/yum.conf.5.php

http://linux.die.net/man/5/yum.conf

Xen Hardware Compatibility List (HCL)

http://hcl.xensource.com/

There is an OpenVZ live-CD VZ VM server with VZ VM guests (based on CentOS or KNOPPIX) that you can download from http://wiki.openvz.org/Download_live_CD

And there is a quick start guide to read at http://wiki.openvz.org/Getting_started_with_OpenVZ_live_CD

Oracle is entering the virtualization space with Oracle VM

http://www.oracle.com/technologies/virtualization/index.html

http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/11/12/oracle-vm-takes-on-everyone/

News broke this morning that Oracle is entering the virtualization space with Oracle VM. Toes were stepped on, canned analyst comments were issued via press release, and the virtualization space once again proved that it is hot, hot, hot and has no intention of settling down just yet.

According to Oracle, its new server virtualization software supports both Oracle and non-Oracle applications. Oracle products like Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Applications are all certified with Oracle VM.

It would appear that VMware ESX 3.0.2 needs your CPU to have EM64T and VT features and that Execute Disable is enabled in the BIOS (e.g. an Intel Xeon E5300 X5365) to run 64-bit VMware guest virtual machines !

Here are some other Red Hat RHEL 64 bit guest issues you might see

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2087

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2260

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2263

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=10147

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2229