Upcoming Webinar: Discover the Benefits of Switching from Red Hat to Oracle Linux |
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June 16 | 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM EST / 5:00 PM CEST |
Considering an alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux? Join this webinar to learn how Oracle Linux can help organizations achieve greater value, flexibility, and support while providing a seamless path to enterprise virtualization.
In this session, you will learn how Oracle Linux helps Red Hat customers:
- Realize immediate IT cost savings.
- Preserve application compatibility.
- Minimize downtime and maximize update.
- Optimize Oracle investments.
- Simplify virtualization.
- Manage containers more easily.
- Accelerate operations with automation.
Learn how Oracle Linux can help streamline IT management, support enterprise workloads, and provide a flexible path to efficient virtualization. |
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Product Highlights |
Announcing: Oracle Linux Migration and Mirror Automation Scripts |
Oracle has announced two community-driven scripts that help simplify Oracle Linux adoption. The migrate-to-oracle-linux.sh script helps convert existing Enterprise Linux systems to Oracle Linux, while mirror-oracle-linux-yum.sh helps create local yum mirrors for connected or restricted environments.
Together, these tools support scalable, repeatable migrations with validation, reporting, private mirror support, RPM signature verification, and kernel selection for UEK or RHCK. Read more.
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Oracle Virtualization Adds Support for Oracle Linux 9 Compute Host |
Oracle Virtualization now supports Oracle Linux 9 KVM compute hosts with Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager 4.5. Customers can add Oracle Linux 9 hosts while continuing to use core virtualization capabilities such as live migration, snapshots, scheduling policies, and high availability. The update also includes UEK8 support, updated pre-check scripts, a new Oracle Linux 9-based self-hosted engine appliance, and support for the latest certified server technology.
Oracle Virtualization provides KVM virtualization and management capabilities with built-in disaster recovery features and no license cost, available through Oracle Linux Premier Plus Support. Read more.
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UEK 8.2 Delivers Advancements in Confidential Computing and System Reliability |
Oracle has announced Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 8 Update 2 for Oracle Linux. Based on Linux kernel 6.12, UEK 8.2 introduces enhancements for confidential computing, file system reliability, memory management, security, and hardware enablement across x86-64 and Arm architectures.
New capabilities include Intel TDX guest and hypervisor support, XFS online repair, lightweight guard pages, memory allocation profiling, updated drivers, and bug fixes. Read more.
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Oracle Cloud Migrations Now Supports Oracle Virtualization |
Oracle Cloud Migrations now supports migration from VMware and AWS to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or Oracle Virtualization on-premises.
This new capability helps organizations evaluating VMware alternatives or planning hybrid cloud modernization move workloads with greater flexibility—whether they are modernizing in the cloud, on-premises, or across both environments. Download the flyer.
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Oracle Virtualization with StorPool Storage |
Oracle Virtualization and StorPool Storage can help organizations replace legacy virtualization and storage stacks with modern, software-defined infrastructure.
The integration combines Oracle Linux KVM and Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager with StorPool’s distributed block storage to deliver scalable, resilient, high-performance VM storage on commodity hardware—while helping customers preserve choice and avoid lock-in. Read more.
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New Features and Recent Changes in DTrace |
Recent DTrace for Linux updates in releases 2.0.4 and 2.0.5 make the observability tool more powerful and easier to use.
Enhancements include kernel error injection, new TCP and UDP providers, improved USDT and SystemTap-style tracing, stack trace variables, performance and scalability improvements, expanded documentation, examples, training videos, and AI-ready context files for learning and script development. Read more.
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Developers Corner |
Two Decades of Penguins: Oracle Linux Turns 20 |
Oracle Linux is celebrating 20 years of enterprise Linux innovation. This retrospective looks back at milestones including the early “corruptsdata” debug kernel, Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel, Ksplice, DTrace, virtualization, security and compliance capabilities, upstream Linux contributions, and OpenELA.
The article also highlights Oracle’s ongoing commitment to open, reliable, secure, and high-performance Linux for enterprise, cloud, and mission-critical workloads. Read more.
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Deploy Oracle Virtualization with Confidence |
A new Oracle Virtualization best practices paper helps customers plan, install, and deploy Oracle Virtualization environments with confidence.
The guide covers deployment models for Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager, data center and cluster design, hardware alignment, compute, networking, storage, VM configuration, backup and recovery, and operational practices that can improve stability, performance, scalability, and manageability. Read the paper.
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New Training for Oracle Virtualization |
Oracle University has refreshed Oracle Virtualization training with an updated Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager Administration course and a new Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager Associate certification exam.
The learning path covers architecture, installation, configuration, monitoring, management, storage, networking, users, high availability, disaster recovery, backups, best practices, and troubleshooting for Oracle Linux KVM environments. Explore the training.
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Oracle Linux Enhanced Diagnostics: Monitor RPM Database Corruption with rpm_db_snooper |
Oracle Linux Enhanced Diagnostics includes rpm_db_snooper, a DTrace-based diagnostic tool that helps administrators investigate recurring RPM database corruption.
The systemd service monitors access by rpm, yum, and dnf to /var/lib/rpm, captures signals such as SIGKILL, and logs events to help identify automation, operators, or system components that abruptly terminated package processes. Read more.
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Oracle Linux on Apple Silicon with UTM |
Oracle explains how to run Oracle Linux on Apple Silicon Macs using UTM and new preconfigured aarch64 images from yum.oracle.com.
The guide walks through downloading Oracle Linux 9 or Oracle Linux 10 UTM images, configuring shared networking, starting the VM, adding a GUI, and optionally running Oracle Database 23ai in the VM with Podman. Read more.
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Trace Kernel Function Return Values with trace-cmd |
New trace-cmd support helps engineers decode kernel function return values in function_graph traces. The update adds (ret=...) annotations alongside call graph and timing data, making it easier to trace syscall errors back to the first kernel function that returned them, validate kernel changes, and troubleshoot live systems. A tracefs fallback is also available when needed. Read more.
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Watch our Oracle Virtualization Webinar Series |
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Explore our on-demand webinars to get the latest news and insights. Learn how Oracle Virtualization provides an efficient, cost-saving alternative for organizations striving to optimize technology investments and streamline operations.
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