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Creating Oracle VirtualBox Virtual Machine with Oracle Linux
Before we begin first download the required software.
- Download and install Oracle VirtualBox Software from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
- Download Oracle Linux from http://edelivery.oracle.com/linux
Select “Oracle Linux” and “x86 64 bit“. Click Go
Download Oracle Linux Release 5 Update 7
If you are installing on your Windows machine then download the software for Windows.
Important Note: We are using Linux 5 because somehow Oracle Linux 6 (update 2) is not working with VirtualBox for us as it was not able to launch GUI mode. The whole installation was going in text mode and later also it was not able to shift to GUI mode. The error is as follows.
Click on New
Click Next
Provide any name for this VM and select Linux/Oracle (64 bit) for the OS Type. Click Next
In Memory screen, select at least 3 GB memory. We have tested with 3 GB RAM and double swap till install phase. In order to start all services in the final stage it is recommended to keep 9-10GB. We had finished the final step by increasing to 10GB RAM and 12 GB swap file. Click Next.
Note: We will provide the JVM tuning tricks with copy of our config files to fit everything in our RAM setup.
Select “Startup Disk” and “Create new hard disk“. Click Next
Since we want our VM Disks to be compatible with VMWare as well, we will use VMDK file type.
Next screen we will select “Dynamically allocated” storage. This will allow us to keep the VM disk size according to the actual usage. Click Next
Note: This of course makes VM a bit slower initially during the installation (compared to Fixed size) since in this case the VM needs to keep on increasing the disk size as we move with the installation. So we have to choose between the trade-offs.
Provide a location with at least 300 GB available space. Select size as 300 GB. Click Next
On Summary screen click on “Create” to create the Virtual Disk.
On next Summary screen click on “Create” to create the Virtual Machine.
Click on Settings
Click on Network. Select “Host-only Adapter“. We will explain this later while assigning IP in Linux. Click OK
Make sure to have Operating System CD (Here Oracle Linux 5) in the CD drive. Click on Start
Note: You can optionally use Virtual CD drive software (for example Daemon tools-lite) to mount an ISO image to a virtual CD.
Click Next
Select the drive / virtual drive containing OS installation CD/DVD. Click Next
Click on Start to begin installation of Linux
In the next section we will coner Installing Linux on Physical or Virtual Machine (VMWare or VirtualBox) .
Note: This is a generic guide which can be used for installation on Physical or Virtual machine.
Installing Linux Operating System
Press Enter to continue with Graphical mode installation
At this moment we can ignore this message if it appears since graphics is already available. Once we install Virtualbox Guest Additions (Explained later)
Use TAB to select between options. Select “Skip” and press Enter
Click Next
Keep default “English (English)” Click Next
Keep default “US English” Click Next
Since our disk is blank and not yet formatted to Linux File System, click “Yes” to erase all data.
Select “Remove all partitions on selected drive and create default layout” and click Next
Manually assign host name. We are using “fusion” as our hostname. We will assign IP later.
Important note: We will use the hostname “fusion” throughout this installation. If you are planning to change the host name then make sure that you enter the new name everywhere during the installation wherever we have mentioned “fusion”
Select Customize now and click Next
Make sure to include following while selecting.
Now select Base System from the left pane and check System Tools from the right pane. Click on Optional packages. In the list of packages select oracle-validated package. This package will create a Linux user oracle and will create necessary Linux groups. This package will also set Linux kernel parameters needed for Oracle installations.
Click Next to finish the installation and reboot the OS.
After first boot, above welcome screen appears. Click Forward
Select Yes and click Forward
Select Disabled and click Forward
Select Disabled in this screen and click Forward.
Please note that if this is kept Enforcing then at one point the installation will fail to start the services.
Click Forward
Select correct date and time and click Forward
We can skip this page since we will create users later if required. Just click Forward
Click Forward
Click Finish. On the login screen, login as root
Now let us check what is the IP range for our VM network. Open command prompt on your host windows OS.
C:>ipconfig
Windows IP Configuration
Ethernet adapter VirtualBox Host-Only Network:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.56.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
In the ipconfig output look for VirtualBox Host-Only Network. We can see that the IP address is 192.168.56.1. This is our gateway for VM. Since the Subnet mask is 255.255.255.0, we can change the last octet and assign any IP in that range for our VM. Let us select 192.168.56.101 as our VM IP.
Click on System->Administration->Network
Click on Edit.
Enter manual IP address as follows.
IP: 192.168.56.101
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.56.1
Click on File->Save and click Activate. Now on shell prompt run following command as root to restart network services.
service network restart
Make an entry for this IP for the host in /etc/hosts file. Also comment out IPv6 entry (localhost6). Also create an additional alias fusion.localdomain (we will use this later)
[root@fusion ~]# cat /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
#::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
192.168.56.101 fusion fusion.localdomain
Now we must install Guest Additions to smoothly use the VM along with the host windows. We can have higher resolution and also easier mouse movements between VM and host Windows after this.
Click Devices-> Install Guest Additions in the VirtualBox menu. This will automatically mount a CD on the VM CD drive.
Then run following commands. Make sure you are logged in as root
cd /media/VBOXADDITIONS_4.1.8_75467
./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
This will install the Guest Additions. Reboot the VM. Now we can change the resolution to higher value.
Click on System -> Preferences -> Screen Resolution
Change the resolution to 1024×768. Click Apply. On next reboot the system will show higher resolution.
Now we will mount the already created Stage directory/Provisioning Repository in the Linux VM.
In the VirtualBox window, click on Settings
Click on Shared Folders -> Add shared folder
Browse for the directory where we staged the installation files. We will mount it as “Read-only” because we do not want to make any changes in the source folder.
It will look as above. Click OK
Now we will mount it in the VM. Login as root and run following commands.
[root@fusion ~]# mkdir /mnt/fusion
[root@fusion ~]# chown oracle:dba /mnt/fusion/
[root@fusion ~]# mount -t vboxsf Stage /mnt/fusion/
[root@fusion ~]# ls -l /mnt/fusion/
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 7 08:02 appspatches
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 8 15:35 installers
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 7 02:28 jdk6
Please note that since the installation involves graphical interface, you can either run it directly by opening a terminal window from the Virtual Machine GUI or we can use putty on windows to connect to the virtual machine. When you use putty from windows then you must use tools like XManager to view output on host.
Also please make sure that sufficient swap memory is available by using “free –m” command. It least double the amount of RAM should be available as swap space. If not manually add swap files.
For example, adding 4 GB swap space.
[root@fusion fusiondb]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile1 bs=1024 count=4194304
4194304+0 records in
4194304+0 records out
4294967296 bytes (4.3 GB) copied, 112.697 seconds, 38.1 MB/s
[root@fusion fusiondb]# mkswap /swapfile1
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 4294963 kB
[root@fusion fusiondb]# swapon /swapfile1
[root@fusion fusiondb]# free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2506 2386 119 0 9 1871
-/+ buffers/cache: 505 2000
Swap: 5605 152 5452
Next: Installing Fusion Applications Provisioning Framework
Installing Oracle Fusion Applications – steps
- Installing Fusion Applications Provisioning Framework
- Installing Oracle 11g Database (Applications Transactional Database)
- Running Oracle Fusion Applications Repository Creation Utility (Applications RCU)
- Creating another database for Oracle Identity Management Infrastructure (optional)
- Running Repository Creation Utility (RCU) for Oracle Identity Management components
- Installing Oracle Identity and Access Management Components
- Configuring Oracle Identity and Access Management components
- Integrate Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) and Oracle Access Manager (OAM)
- Creating a New Provisioning Plan
- Provisioning an Applications Environment
Installation will finish in a few minutes. Click Next
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