[Users] Oracle on a VE

Vasily Averin vvs at parallels.com
Thu Mar 12 04:35:07 EDT 2009


Frank,

I would recommend You to update kernel to
http://wiki.openvz.org/Download/kernel/rhel5/028stab060.2

we have added several improvements, it can help you.

thank you,
	Vasily Averin

Frank wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> we are trying to install Oracle on a VE. We have read documents about 
> it, but still have problems.
> 
> -With Oracle 10, we have read the excellent article at 
> http://wiki.openvz.org/Oracle_10g_VE, but although installation goes 
> well, we are not able to
> create an instance. We get an "Out of memory" message or if we reduce 
> the instance memory requirements, we get a "ORA-27123: unable to attach
> to shared memory segment". I must say that the article is based on a 
> "centos-4-i386-default" template and we use a 
> "centos-5-i386-default.tar.gz", but
> we don't think that is the cause. Of course the VE has all its 
> parameters to the maximum.
> 
> -With Oracle 11, we get the following message just after execute 
> "runInstaller":
> 
> runInstaller: line 81:  3207 Violació de segment    $CMDDIR/install/.oui $*
> 
> We have read that the cause could be the length of the kernel name (what 
> one get executing "uname -r") which is "2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.028stab057.2PAE",
> longer than 30 characters, which is a limitation of oracle command. We 
> don't know how to avoid this.
> 
> Any help or experience will be grateful.
> 
> Frank
> 
> 
> 
> 



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