RAT for all

One of the nice features of Oracle 11g is Real Application testing, basically you can record and playback database loads - and with a bit of opatch'n you can also record loads from older version and playback (with and 11g installation) retro fit that shi7!

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/manageability/database/pdf/metalink_real_application_testing_for_earlier_releases.pdf

Oracle 11gR2 on JeOS

I wanna play with Oracle 11gR2 (and swingbench) stuff so Im going to use Oracle Enterprise Linux JeOS in Sun Virtual Box....
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/virtualization/vm_jeos.html
...more to come - unless I get bored or sidetracked

OK it would not even boot - shi7

new virtual box is out now v3.2.0b1 - renamed to Oracle Virtual Box
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=30286

• Experimental support for Mac OS X guests
• Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see the manual for more information)
• CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove) and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see the manual for more information)
• New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance (see the manual for more information); also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster, which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)
• Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running
• Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI (see the manual for more information)
• USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience if no Guest Additions are available
• LsiLogic SAS controller emulation
• RDP video acceleration
• NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage