At http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/soasuite/learnmore/vmsoa-172279.html one can find the latest 11g SOA/BPM Virtual Machine (VM) which also contains Webcenter. Unfortunately, Webcenter has been added in version 11.1.1.7 to that VM; as there are major enhancements in Webcenter 11.1.1.8 it generally makes sense to upgrade the VM to that version. At http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E29542_01/doc.1111/e16793/patch_webcenter.htm#BABGAFDE a documentation for upgrading from 11.1.1.7 to 11.1.1.8 can be found. In this post I want to describe which steps of the update guide I actually executed in…