all things dba: virtualbox

Installation of Oracle Unbreakable Linux 6.6 on Virtual Box

Intro

This installation has been performed on VirtualBox 4.3.16 running on Win 7. Make sure that you have downloaded the OUL-iso from the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud prior to the installation .

Create a vm in VirtualBox

Open VirutalBox and select Machine => New

Next give the vm a meaningfull name. This can be different from the actual hostname of the vm. Make sure that Type is Linux and Version is Oracle (64bit).

Assing memory to the vm.

Select "Create a virtual hard drive now" and click Create.

Select VDI as file type and on the next screen select "Fixed Size"

Select 12G for the virtual hard drive and click Create.

The virtual hard drive will be created. This can take up several minuts depending on the hardware.

Now that the virtual machine is created we need to add a virtual cd/dvd. Right click on the vm and select settings.

Click on the "Add CD/DVD Device icon right of "Controller IDE " and select the iso downloaded from Oracle.

You can now start up the vm. The OUL installer will start up. Select "Install or upgrade an existing system"

Click "Next"

Select "English" and click "Next"

Select the appropriate keyboard-layout. I chose "Belgian BE Latin". Click "Next"

Select "Basic Storage Device" and click "Next"

Select "Yes, Discard any data" ==> Next

Hostname ==> racnode01.testdomain.com

Select the correct timezone and click "Next"

Enter the password for the root-account.

Select "Use All Space" and click "Next"

Select "Write changes to disk" ==> "Next"

Select "Basic Server". If required you can install additional options later on. Click "Next"

The installation will start. This will take up 10-15 minutes.

Installing Debian Linux on Oracle Virtualbox

Some experimentation done with Debian Linux on Oracle Virtualbox running on top of Win7. Oracle Virtualbox provides the perfect sandbox to play around. This complete installation will tape approx 1h to complete depending on the specifications of the host-server.

First, start of with creating a new virtual machine in Oracle Virtualbox. Start-up Oracle VM VirtualBox and click on "New"

The "Create Virtual Machine" wizard will popup. Give the vm a meaningfull name like "Debian_Linux_VM". Type will be Linux and Version Debian (64bit). Click "Next"

The vm will be configured with 512 MB for this test. Click "Next"

On the next screen select 'Create a virtual hard drive now' and click "Next"

As Hard drive file type leave the default "VDI" and click "Next"

Select Fixed size and click "Next".

!! Be aware that you cannot resize a disk with fixed size after creation !!

Choose the size of the virtual hd (Here we choose 4GB). Click "Next"

Click Create and the virtual machine will be created :

When the vm is created it will be powered off. We now need to attach the Debian installation cd to the virtual machine so we can perform the actual installation.