As many may know Oracle VM Server is based on Xen hypervisor so it’s possible to run VMs prepared for Oracle VM on other Xen based solutions like XenServer or OCP.  Main difference is management of VMs – Oracle VM is using xm, while recent XenServer is using newer xapi stack.  But paravirtualized Linux kernels can run easily on both.

Oracle is providing VM templates with many of it’s key products – like for instance new Oracle 12c database.   In this article we will show how to run Oracle 12c Database VM template on XenServer 6.2. Continue reading Running Oracle VM Template for DB 12c in XenServer →