ORA-00845: MEMORY_TARGET not supported on this system

ORA-00845: MEMORY_TARGET not supported on this system
Cause: The MEMORY_TARGET parameter was not supported on this operating system or /dev/shm was not sized correctly on Linux.
Action: Refer to documentation for a list of supported operating systems. Or, size /dev/shm to be at least the SGA_MAX_SIZE on each Oracle instance running on the system.

Solution:
I'm using an Oracle Linux 6.4 64 bit with 4GB RAM on VirtualBox, and change Oracle's memory configuration
alter system set MEMORY_MAX_TARGET = 2048M scope=spfile;
Apparently, there's no enough memory for Oracle to startup. As by default, Oracle Linux uses 50% of total RAM as /dev/shm. 
df -h | grep shm
tmpfs                 2.0G  284K  2.0G   1% /dev/shm

Increasing RAM size and bounce Linux should solve the issue
df -h | grep shm
tmpfs                 3.0G  112K  3.0G   1% /dev/shm

[oracle@odilab ~]$ sqlplus "/as sysdba"

SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.1.0 Production on Sun Nov 24 00:29:47 2013

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Connected to an idle instance.

SQL> startup
ORACLE instance started.

Total System Global Area 2137886720 bytes
Fixed Size                  2215064 bytes
Variable Size            1610613608 bytes
Database Buffers          520093696 bytes
Redo Buffers                4964352 bytes
Database mounted.
Database opened.

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