> They do that with their own stack too (or at least they did). Nope. If you buy Oracle's virt stacks (either RHEV-with-the-serial-numbers-filed-off-and-using

> They do that with their own stack too (or at least they did). Nope. If you buy Oracle's virt stacks (either RHEV-with-the-serial-numbers-filed-off-and-using-XEN or Solaris), they happily let you sub-capacity license. It's been that way for at least four or five years now. > To avoid costs, you have to set up the VM such that it is locked to certain cores, and then that avoids the virtualisation portion of the license issues. Under current licensing, that's a no, unless it's running in an Oracle branded VM, or zVM. No pinning or soft partitioning are recognised otherwise.