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Next, open VMWare and select Create a new virtual machine Select “I will install the operating system later” Make your OS selection about the OS that’s currently on the vmdk you will be using. (The guest OS, not the host OS). Later on, you will have the option to use an existing vmdk image as your virtual hard drive. Do so. You should now be able to finish setup and boot your converted disk image.

All of which led me to FusionCharts, which is a brilliant set of flash charts and widgets.

All I had to do was figure out how to integrate it into my app. First I had to write a function to extract the data I needed from my database and output it as correctly-formatted XML. That bit was easy so I won't bore you with it.

Next I uploaded the Flash (SWF) file for my chart into my workspace. (Tell me something: when you upload an image to your application using Apex's image uploader you refer to it by pointing at # APP_IMAGES#, so how do you think you'd refer to a file you've uploaded using Apex's file uploader? #APP_FILES#? Wrong! Illogically, all files uploaded into your application should be pointed at using the #APP_IMAGES# substitution string.)Finally, I created a dynamic PL/SQL content region outputting the necessary wrapper tags for my Flash movie (which I copied from the FusionCharts examples), pointing it to my uploaded swf file and feeding it the XML from my database function (which I call in "before regions" page process).