![]() Provide a Name and specify a Size for the disk. Specify Dynamically Allocated – which basically means that the file created on your host to implement this virtual disk will only grow to its final size when in the VM the disk space is actually allocated. Select the option to create a virtual hard disk now: Time to define the storage under our new machine. Set the memory size (something you can easily adjust after creating the VM): Type the name of the new VM and select the operating system for the machine – Linux and Oracle (64 bit) respectively: Just save the file somewhere on your disk. Go to and select a mirror to download the ISO image from. Download the Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.4 ISO image Export appliance to have it available for reuse.Reboot the VM and login => the new VM is done.Instruct the installer wizard what to install (include for example the graphical desktop – sorry, I cannot help myself).Start the new Virtual Machine the ‘DVD’ will run the installer for OEL.Attach a new DVD device – based on the ISO image.Create a Virtual Machine in Virtual Box – provide a name, the intended operating system, some details about the initial hard disk, configure network properties (I am still struggling a bit here).Download the Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.4 ISO image (3,5 GB) Note: you can pick other Linux distros as well not however that Oracle Database 12c and onwards will not be available for 32 bit Linux!.Download and install Virtual Box (nothing special, just run the install wizard).Here is how you can get a Virtual Box VM going on OEL in less than one hour. In this article I would like to show you how I got over my threshold – that seemed so high from one end and turned out so low from the other. My decade of hesitation was quite unjustified. And in hindsight – it was not such a big deal. And after a few days of struggling, googling an frantically asking around, I have managed to get Oracle Database 12c running in Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.4 based Virtual Box VM. And the release of Oracle Database 12c on Linux only (!) was another big stimulus. Primarily because of a colleague who in so many words told me to get a grip. And the idea of creating a virtual machine by myself seemed preposterous. But I was a little scared of Linux if truth be told. I have occasionally downloaded Linux based VMs from OTN – and used as the server side in my development efforts quite happily – and I was supplied with such Linux VMs by several very helpful colleagues no many occasions, for example for doing the work in the various beta-programs AMIS is involved in. Then I started using Virtual Machines and even they had Windows as their client operating system most of the times. But in later years, on my own laptop, I took the easy way out and succumbed to Windows and GUIs. That’s where I acquired from cd, vi, sed, grep and ls skills. When I started my career at Oracle, back in 1994, I had to do a little bit of development work on a UNIX machine.
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