Oracle 10G support with ASM in Windows VM

Hi,
Planning to use Oracle 10G inside a Windows VM with paravirtualized drivers. We will be using iSCSI software initiator from within the windows VM directly to provision LUNs and use ASM as well.
Will this combination fall under the supported category?
thanks!
Gak

There are many different organizations involved with your question about being supported, so your best answer would be an official one directly from your Sales contact. There are mostly technical folk in these forums who can tell you if it will work, but that is not stating a support policy.

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