If this warning is prompted, Choose Yes, discard any data to format the partition. Press tab to move focus to the “Skip” key, then press Enter.Ĭhoose the appropriate Storage Option and click Next.

Once the VM is booted with provided ISO, choose the Install or upgrade an existing system tab and hit Enter. Right click on the VM and choose Start => Normal Startĭuring Start the VM would prompt for installation media, choose the ISO of the OS you have selected during STEP – 2and click Next. STEP 11 – VM – Network Settings – Adapter 2Ĭhoose the network configuration for 2nd Adapter and then close the settings dialog box. Since we need 2 Network Adapter for Public and Private Communication, we would enable 2 Network Adapter with Bridged Network Configuration. STEP 10 – VM – Network Settings – Adapter 1Ĭhoose the Network Adapter for your env. Review the information in the Summary and Click on Create tab to create the Virtual Disk with specified configuration.Ĭhoose the appropriate system settings (RAM, Processor, etc) as per your requirement choose Dynamically Allocated else for better performance choose Fixed Size.Ĭhoose the appropriate path at the Host machine where you want to create the physical file for Virtual Disk and also specify the Size. STEP 5 – Choose the File Type for Virtual Diskĭepending on your need choose the File type accordingly, if not sure, choose the default i.e. Once VirtualBox is installed, open the VirtualBox Manager to create a new machine by clicking at New tab, this will open following dialog box.Įnter the desired VM’s Name and Choose the OS as per the software handy with you.Ĭhoose appropriate memory setting, as per the available RAM on your host machine.Īt this stage choose the default i.e.

Proceed with the setup to perform a clean installation. Run the setup from the downloaded Oracle VirtualBox software, this would present you with setup dialog box as below. You can download the required software from below links:. This post was originally intended to create a VM (1st node) of a RAC setup.

This is a quick post on installing Oracle Linux 6 on VirtualBox.

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