Slow startup of oracle database instance

Hi,
It take about 7 minutes to start an oracle database on a vmware linux machine.
On the host system, the same database take less than one minute to startup.
Hardware : hp proliant dl380 g4 (1 intel Xion 3.2), 6 gb of memory (3.9 for vritual machine)
OS : Redhat linux AS 3.0 (both on host machine and vmware machine)
vmware : 3.2 GSX
Oracle : 10.1.0.3 (both on host and vm machine)
Is this startup time normal or is there something that I could change?
On the host machine a copy of the database takes less than a one minute to startup.
Andre

On the host machine a copy of the database takes less than a one minute to startup.Well if you have (as Andre) "same" databases on guest and on host, I can just repeat:
Reconfigure vmware settings, search in help everything about let's say "performance of guest OS"!
It's also exists vmware-Forum with bunch of usefull information.
This is not Oracle related question.
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You can even define resource group dependencies or affinities between the resource groups. Like you could define a negative affinity between qa-rg and prod-rg, such as if prod-rg needs to failover to node-b (since e.g. node-a died), it would offline qa-rg. Details for that kind of possibilities are described at [http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-4682/ch14_resources_admin-35?l=en&a=view|http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-4682/ch14_resources_admin-35?l=en&a=view].
Regards
Thorsten

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Hi - I have a customer who is using an Oracle database instance not in archivelog mode
currently, I have managed to persuade them to backup at least weekly using an RMAN cold backup.
Prior to my being allowed to do anything else they want to perform a test restore from the cold backup
I want to find a simple procedure to do this which will enable me to tick the box then hopefully I may be able to persuade them that Hot Backups are the way to go.
Has anyone got any good suggestions for this please?

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No they do not worry about data in this situation - Oracle is used almost as a query engine maybe a very odd solution as the actual data is not really held within this oracle database but the resultant queries are!
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