Subject: Re: [vserver] Installing the Oracle 10g XE on guest ...
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 17:37:34 +0200

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:10:34AM -0500, Dragan Saraginov wrote:
> Hi to all. Hope you all are OK.

> I have a simple question is there a way for Oracle 10g XE be installed
> on linux-vserver guest. I have tried to install this package on my
> Ubuntu 8.10 guest but the installation script was stopped complaining
> about the amount of swap space (it is 0MB).

some installer are just broken :)

> My question is is there a way to avoid the swap check or trick the
> installation script about the swap space.

configure the soft and hard RSS limit to differ
and enable VIRT_MEM .. the difference will show up
as swap space, regardless whether there is swap on
the host or not

best,
Herbert

> TIA,
> Dragan Saragin
> 
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