Apple Silicon

Oracle Database on Apple Silicon with Virtualbox 7.1

I blogged in the past about running an Oracle database for testing purposes on Apple Silicon. Initially with emulated Intel code here and then (when Oracle released its 19c database software for ARM) with UTM as a wrapper(…)

Running an Oracle Database 19c on Apple Silicon (Apple Macbook Air M1)

By end of June 2023 Oracle announced the availability of Oracle 19c for the Arm-architecture (aarch64). Consultants and DBAs, who do use a Mac Laptop with Apple Silicon (M1 or M2), have waited quite a long time to(…)

Building a transportable Oracle Sandbox environment for an Apple Silicon Laptop (MacBook with M1- or M2-processor)

Since Apple released their Apple Silicon Laptops based on the ARM processor architecture, it became difficult for Consultants with such a device to run their Oracle Sandbox environment, because the main Oracle products are running on the Intel architecture.

Running Intel x86-64 VMs with an Oracle DB on Apple Silicon (ARM)

For testing purposes many IT-people traditionally use Virtual Machines (VMs) on their Laptops (often on Oracle Virtualbox). Since Apple moved to its own processor type (Apple Silicon, i.e. ARM architecture), it’s no longer possible to run VMs based on(…)