- ORACLE VIRTUALBOX FOR MAC OS X INSTALL
- ORACLE VIRTUALBOX FOR MAC OS X 64 BIT
- ORACLE VIRTUALBOX FOR MAC OS X UPDATE
- ORACLE VIRTUALBOX FOR MAC OS X 32 BIT
- ORACLE VIRTUALBOX FOR MAC OS X MANUAL
ORACLE VIRTUALBOX FOR MAC OS X UPDATE
One thing I did different was to update Ubuntu after installing it. Anyway, both approaches work fine for our purposes. I wonder, what happened to the original swap space in Eoin’s system after he set up the new swap space? Is that just unused disk space now? I don’t know. Setting this up at Ubuntu’s install-time works, but Eoin’s four step, post-install approach seems simpler than the installer-based 17 steps.
ORACLE VIRTUALBOX FOR MAC OS X INSTALL
… and Finish Partitioning … , Write the changes to disk, and continue the install from there. (I don’t think it really matters if it’s Primary or Logical.)ġ7) Select Done setting up the partition. It will all be FREE SPACE.ħ) Make the new partition all of the disk space except for 1.1Gb.ĩ) Make the new partition start at the Beginning.ġ0) Keep the defaults for the Partition Settings, and select Done setting up the partition.ġ1) Back on the main partitioning page, select remaining 1.1Gb of pri/log FREE SPACE.ġ3) Use the remaining 1.1Gb of free space.ġ4) Make the partition Primary.
ORACLE VIRTUALBOX FOR MAC OS X MANUAL
I did the following steps to set up a swap space on an 8Gb hard disk:ġ) When given the Disk Partition options appears during installation, choose the Manual option.Ģ) Select the Guided Partitioning option.Ĥ) Yes, create the new empty partition table.ĥ) Select the pri/log option. That wasn’t completely intuitive and it took me a couple of hours to figure out how, but it only takes a minute now that I know how. Where Eoin created a larger swap space using a few commands, I created a larger swap space at install time. There are at least two ways of doing this. The default swap space for Ubuntu is not large enough for Oracle, and it needs to be enlarged. There is a checkbox in one of the Ubuntu 9.10 installer options that will take care of that for you at install time. So, I went with Bridged networking.Įoin installed SSH as one of the last things he did. I don’t believe NAT has the same problem with IP addresses. The home router can assign it a different IP address arbitrarily, which is something you don’t want when you are connecting to a server by its by IP address. The main down side of Bridged VMs is that they can have problems keeping a consistent IP address after the VM is shut down and restarted. With NAT networking, only the computer that the VM is running on has direct access to the VM. With Bridged networking, the server is a part of the home network just like a real machine. Some software tools for Oracle are Windows based and I may want to use those. I want to be able to access the server directly from a real Windows computer in my home network. Eoin used a NAT network adapter in his network configuration as a way to keep connection issues to a minimum. I created my Ubuntu server image with Bridged networking instead of NAT which Eoin did.
ORACLE VIRTUALBOX FOR MAC OS X 32 BIT
There may be a way to make it work, but the way wasn’t obvious to me, so I deleted the image, downloaded the 32 bit server, created a new 32 bit Ubuntu VM for it, and went from there.
ORACLE VIRTUALBOX FOR MAC OS X 64 BIT
Oracle 10g Express is set up for 32 bit architecture and complained about the 64 bit architecture when I tried to install it.
I assumed that because my Mac has a 64 bit architecture I would be able to use the 64 bit Ubuntu server. I made the mistake of getting the 64 bit system. However, there are two builds, one for 64 bit systems and one for 32 bit systems. I am using the current version which is 9.10. One of the problems I ran into when walking through Eoin’s How-To had to do with Ubuntu versioning. My documentation here contains caveats, updates and variations of what Eoin covered. I recommend that you read through my notes here and then follow Eoin’s article to do the install. Oracle runs on Ubuntu server, so I went with a Ubuntu server image.įortunately for me (and for you too, I assume), Eoin Woods has already written up an excellent How-To on his blog Viewpointsperspectives and the rest for installing Oracle 10g Express on Ubuntu server on VirtualBox on OS X. I decided to use VirtualBox for my virtual machine. Besides isolating the software from the host OS, I can also take image snapshots so I can restore to an earlier stable state if I need to, and I can freeze the server and close the image if I want to free up my laptop’s memory for a while without losing the state of the VM image. I think it’s usually better to run stuff like Oracle in a virtual machine for non-production work. Oracle isn’t really supported on OS X, and even if it was I don’t want to pollute my laptop with too much complex software. To get this, I’m going to get Oracle running on my Mac laptop so I can look around at Oracle and practice stuff. I’ve decided to shoot for a basic Oracle certification.