Oracle 10g XE and OpenVZ
Posted by Double Compile on Tuesday, May 6. 2008 in Databases
Last night I tried to install Oracle 10g XE on my Debian-based database server for testing purposes. Tried is the key word here.
Interestingly enough, Oracle offers a deb repository for this purpose. Add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://oss.oracle.com/debian unstable main non-free
Then execute the following commands as root (or with sudo) to add Oracle's public signing key and then install Oracle XE:
# wget http://oss.oracle.com/el4/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle -O- | sudo apt-key add -
# apt-get update
# apt-get install oracle-xe
Here's the catch: my database server is an OpenVZ VPS. The Oracle installer checks for a sufficiently large swap partition and will bomb out if one of a sufficient size is not found. OpenVZ VPSs do not have a swap partition.
OpenVZ does support swap space, and that swap space can be set with barriers and limits, but the swap space is as a whole meaning that there is one swap space for the entire system, not a user-configurable swap space per-VPS.
So now comes the task of tricking the installer to think I the VPS has a swap partition, or trying to get it on there some other way. Stay tuned for the nuttiness.
Oracle is stupid.
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