Oracle licensing policies screw you if you are using VMWare. You need to license the whole server host and not just what is partitioned for use by the application server VM. From Oracle Partitioning policy, http://www.oracle.com/us/co... Found on this page: http://www.oracle.com/us/co... Soft Partitioning: Soft partitioning segments the operating system using OS resource managers. The operating system limits the number of ......
Perhaps you are trying to encrypt your laptop and you are not connected to the corporate domain controller – perhaps you need to VPN in.