virtualbox

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(…)

VirtualBox on Mac Host: High CPU utilization for idle VM

Many people in the IT industry do use VirtualBox as a Type-2 Hypervisor to test software in virtual machines. I’m using it with Vagrant on my Macbook Pro 2019 (Intel with Ventura 13.2. when writing this Blog) to setup(…)

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(…)

Reduce the complexity: be sharing and open source

By Franck Pachot . I thought that my last post on this blog was the previous one but I blog when it comes to my mind – nothing planned. And two things got me to write(…)

K8s on Windows/VirtualBox

By Franck Pachot . This is a little demo, easy to copy-paste, if you want to play with Kubernetes on your laptop. And, not a simple “Hello World” but a real database running here, able to scale up and(…)

VirtualBox 5.2 exports the VM to the Oracle Cloud

By Franck Pachot . The new release of Oracle VM VirtualBox (aka VirtualBox) is there with a new functionality to export a VM to the Oracle Cloud Compute (aka Oracle Cloud Infrastructure). That can be interesting(…)

Getting Solaris 8 x86 up and running in Virtual Box

As this project is going to start soon and I learned that there is a x86 version of Solaris 8, today I thought it would be great if I can get a test setup up and(…)

Cloud Control 12c on your laptop

By Franck Pachot . Today every DBA should have a lab on his laptop. This is where I reproduce most of cases before opening a SR, or to investigate something, to demo, to learn new features, or to prepare an(…)

Windows 10 – I tried and came back

By Franck Pachot . I've tried Windows 10 one month ago, and I had to roll back because VirtualBox failed to create host-only interfaces. Today, it forced me to upgrade again, so I tried a little further... and finally rolled(…)