{"id":481,"date":"2012-02-01T20:53:42","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T15:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oratraining.com\/blog\/?p=481"},"modified":"2012-08-26T11:04:05","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T11:04:05","slug":"creating-oracle-virtualbox-virtual-machine-with-oracle-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oratraining.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/creating-oracle-virtualbox-virtual-machine-with-oracle-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating Oracle VirtualBox Virtual Machine with Oracle Linux 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Previous: Oracle Fusion Applications Installation – Steps<\/a>
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Creating Oracle VirtualBox Virtual Machine with Oracle Linux
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Before we begin first download the required software.<\/p>\n

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  1. Download and install Oracle VirtualBox Software from https:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/wiki\/Downloads<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Download Oracle Linux from http:\/\/edelivery.oracle.com\/linux<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \"\"<\/p>\n

    Select “Oracle Linux<\/strong>” and “x86 64 bit<\/strong>“. Click Go<\/strong><\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

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    Download Oracle Linux Release 5 Update 7<\/strong><\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    If you are installing on your Windows machine then download the software for Windows.<\/p>\n

    Important Note:<\/strong> 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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     <\/p>\n

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    Click on New
    \n<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    Click Next<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    Provide any name for this VM and select Linux\/Oracle (64 bit) for the OS Type. Click Next<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    In Memory screen, select at least 3 GB<\/strong> memory. We have tested with 3 GB RAM and double swap\u00a0till install phase<\/strong>. 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.\u00a0Click\u00a0Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

    Note: We will provide the JVM tuning tricks with copy of our config files to fit everything in our RAM setup.<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/p>\n

    Select “Startup Disk<\/strong>” and “Create new hard disk<\/strong>“. Click Next<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/p>\n

    Since we want our VM Disks to be compatible with VMWare as well, we will use VMDK file type.<\/p>\n

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    Next screen we will select “Dynamically allocated<\/strong>” storage. This will allow us to keep the VM disk size according to the actual usage. Click Next<\/strong><\/p>\n

    <\/strong>Note:<\/strong> 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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    Provide a location with at least 300 GB available space. Select size as 300 GB. Click Next<\/p>\n

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    On Summary screen click on “Create<\/strong>” to create the Virtual Disk<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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    On next Summary screen click on “Create<\/strong>” to create the Virtual Machine<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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    Click on Settings<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    Click on Network<\/strong>. Select “Host-only Adapter<\/strong>“. We will explain this later while assigning IP in Linux. Click OK<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/p>\n

    Make sure to have Operating System CD (Here Oracle Linux 5) in the CD drive. Click on Start<\/strong><\/p>\n

    <\/strong>Note: You can optionally use Virtual CD drive software (for example Daemon tools-lite) to mount an ISO image to a virtual CD.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    \"\"<\/p>\n

    Click Next<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/p>\n

    Select the drive \/ virtual drive containing OS installation CD\/DVD. Click Next<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/p>\n

    Click on Start<\/strong> to begin installation of Linux<\/p>\n

    In the next section we will coner Installing Linux on Physical or Virtual Machine (VMWare or VirtualBox) .
    \n<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Note: <\/strong>This is a generic guide which can be used for installation on Physical or Virtual machine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Installing Linux Operating System
    \n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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    Press Enter <\/strong>to continue with Graphical mode <\/strong>installation<\/p>\n

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    At this moment we can ignore this message if it appears since graphics is already available. Once we install Virtualbox Guest Additions<\/strong> (Explained later)<\/p>\n

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    Use TAB<\/strong> to select between options. Select “Skip<\/strong>” and press Enter<\/strong><\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

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    Click Next
    \n<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/p>\n

    Keep default “English (English)<\/strong>” Click Next<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/p>\n

    Keep default “US English<\/strong>” Click Next<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    Since our disk is blank and not yet formatted to Linux File System, click “Yes<\/strong>” to erase all data.<\/p>\n

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    Select “Remove all partitions on selected drive and create default layout<\/strong>” and click Next<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    Manually assign host name. We are using “fusion” as our hostname. We will assign IP later.<\/p>\n

    Important note:<\/strong> 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”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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    Select Customize now<\/strong> and click Next<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Make sure to include following while selecting.<\/p>\n

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    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\u00a0Oracle installations.
    \n<\/span><\/p>\n

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    Click Next <\/strong>to finish the installation and reboot the OS.<\/p>\n

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    After first boot, above welcome screen appears. Click Forward<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    Select Yes and click Forward<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    Select Disabled<\/strong> and click Forward<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    Select Disabled<\/strong> in this screen and click Forward<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

    Please note that if this is kept Enforcing then at one point the installation will fail to start the services.<\/p>\n

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    Click Forward<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    Select correct date and time and click Forward<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    We can skip this page since we will create users later if required. Just click Forward<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    Click Forward<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    Click Finish. <\/strong>On the login screen, login as root<\/p>\n

    Now let us check what is the IP range for our VM network. Open command prompt on your host windows OS.<\/p>\n

    C:>ipconfig<\/p>\n

    Windows IP Configuration<\/p>\n

    Ethernet adapter VirtualBox Host-Only Network:<\/p>\n

    Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :<\/p>\n

    IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.56.1<\/p>\n

    Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0<\/p>\n

    Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    In the ipconfig output look for VirtualBox Host-Only Network<\/strong>. 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<\/strong> as our VM IP.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

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    Click on System->Administration->Network<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Click on Edit<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Enter manual IP address as follows.<\/p>\n

    IP: 192.168.56.101<\/p>\n

    Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0<\/p>\n

    Gateway: 192.168.56.1<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Click on File->Save<\/strong> and click Activate<\/strong>. Now on shell prompt run following command as root to restart network services.<\/p>\n

    service network restart<\/p>\n

    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)<\/p>\n

    [root@fusion ~]# cat \/etc\/hosts<\/p>\n

    # Do not remove the following line, or various programs<\/p>\n

    # that require network functionality will fail.<\/p>\n

    127.0.0.1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 localhost.localdomain localhost<\/p>\n

    #::1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6<\/p>\n

    192.168.56.101\u00a0 fusion fusion.localdomain<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    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.<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/p>\n

    Click Devices-> Install Guest Additions<\/strong> in the VirtualBox menu. This will automatically mount a CD on the VM CD drive.<\/p>\n

    Then run following commands. Make sure you are logged in as root<\/strong><\/p>\n

    cd \/media\/VBOXADDITIONS_4.1.8_75467
    \n<\/strong><\/p>\n

    .\/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
    \n<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    This will install the Guest Additions. Reboot the VM. Now we can change the resolution to higher value.<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/p>\n

    Click on System -> Preferences -> Screen Resolution<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    \n<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Change the resolution to 1024×768<\/strong>. Click Apply. <\/strong>On next reboot the system will show higher resolution.
    \n<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Now we will mount the already created Stage directory\/Provisioning Repository in the Linux VM.<\/p>\n

    In the VirtualBox window, click on Settings<\/p>\n

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    \n<\/span><\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Click on Shared Folders -> Add shared folder<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/p>\n

    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.<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/p>\n

    It will look as above. Click OK<\/strong><\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Now we will mount it in the VM. Login as root and run following commands.<\/p>\n

    [root@fusion ~]# <\/span>mkdir \/mnt\/fusion<\/p>\n

    [root@fusion ~]# <\/span>chown oracle:dba \/mnt\/fusion\/<\/strong><\/p>\n

    <\/strong>[root@fusion ~]#<\/span> mount -t vboxsf Stage \/mnt\/fusion\/<\/strong><\/p>\n

    <\/strong>[root@fusion ~]# <\/span>ls -l \/mnt\/fusion\/<\/strong><\/p>\n

    <\/strong>drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 7 08:02 appspatches<\/span><\/p>\n

    drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 8 15:35 installers<\/span><\/p>\n

    drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 7 02:28 jdk6<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

     <\/p>\n

    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<\/strong> to view output on host.<\/p>\n

    Also please make sure that sufficient swap memory is available by using \u201cfree \u2013m<\/strong>\u201d command. It least double the amount of RAM should be available as swap space. If not manually add swap files.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    For example, adding 4 GB swap space.<\/p>\n

    [root@fusion fusiondb]# dd if=\/dev\/zero of=\/swapfile1 bs=1024 count=4194304<\/p>\n

    4194304+0 records in<\/p>\n

    4194304+0 records out<\/p>\n

    4294967296 bytes (4.3 GB) copied, 112.697 seconds, 38.1 MB\/s<\/p>\n

    [root@fusion fusiondb]# mkswap \/swapfile1<\/p>\n

    Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 4294963 kB<\/p>\n

    [root@fusion fusiondb]# swapon \/swapfile1<\/p>\n

    [root@fusion fusiondb]# free -m<\/p>\n

    total\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 used\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 free\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 shared\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 buffers\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 cached<\/p>\n

    Mem:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2506\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2386\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 119\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 9\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1871<\/p>\n

    -\/+ buffers\/cache:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 505\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2000<\/p>\n

    Swap:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 5605\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 152\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 5452<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Next: Installing Fusion Applications Provisioning Framework<\/a>
    \n<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Installing Oracle Fusion Applications – steps<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Installing Fusion Applications Provisioning Framework<\/a>
      \n<\/strong><\/li>\n
    2. Installing Oracle 11g Database (Applications Transactional Database)<\/a>
      \n<\/strong><\/li>\n
    3. Running Oracle Fusion Applications Repository Creation Utility (Applications RCU)
      \n<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
    4. Creating another database for Oracle \u00a0Identity Management Infrastructure\u00a0<\/strong>(optional)
      \n<\/strong><\/li>\n
    5. Running Repository Creation Utility (RCU) for Oracle Identity Management components<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
    6. Installing Oracle Identity and Access Management Components<\/a>
      \n<\/strong><\/li>\n
    7. Configuring Oracle Identity and Access Management components<\/a>
      \n<\/strong><\/li>\n
    8. Integrate Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) and Oracle Access Manager (OAM)<\/a><\/strong>
      \n<\/strong><\/li>\n
    9. Creating a New Provisioning Plan<\/a>
      \n<\/strong><\/li>\n
    10. Provisioning an Applications Environment<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Previous: Oracle Fusion Applications Installation – Steps 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,6,19,38,20],"tags":[47,67,81,84,88,196,147,148],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linuxunixsolaris","category-oracle","category-oracle-applications-dba","category-unix-administration-linuxunixsolaris","category-virtualbox-virtualization","category-virtualization","tag-administration","tag-fusion-applications","tag-installing","tag-installing-linux","tag-installtion","tag-oracle","tag-virtual-machine","tag-virtualbox"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oratraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oratraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oratraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oratraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oratraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oratraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oratraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oratraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oratraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}