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To create our Oracle RAC database on Windows on VMware Workstation 9, we first need to create a Windows VM.
I am using an ISO image of Windows Server 2008R2 that I downloaded from MSDN. An MSDN subscription offers developers the opportunity to test out different technologies from Micorosft for development purposes.
While trying to install Oracle on a Red Hat 6.0 system, running on VMWare, you might encounter the following error:
# An unexpected error has been detected by HotSpot Virtual Machine: # # SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007fd0b80d0d70, pid=2951, tid=140533187077904 # # Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (1.5.0_30-b03 mixed mode) # Problematic frame: # C [ld-linux-x86-64.so.2+0x14d70] # # An error report file with more information is saved as hs_err_pid2951.log # # If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit: # http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp #
To resolve this problem, execute the following before launching runInstaller
$ export LD_BIND_NOW=1
The installer will run normally.
This problem has been reported with Oracle 11.2.0.1 and Oracle 11.2.0.3
In this blog post, we are going to install Oracle 11.2.0.3 64-bit on CentOS 6.3 using VMware Workstation 8. Given that Oracle no longer offers ASMLib for non Oracle branded Linux, we are going to use UDEV rules to manage the disk presentation to ASM.
In my 10-part post on installing Oracle RAC on VMware Workstation I deliberately used an excessive number of screen shots to guide readers through the process. This time I am going to assume you are already comfortable with the Oracle GUI installers, and will skip over excess details to condense this down into a single blog post.
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