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 for the QEMU hypervisor here. In the meantime another possibility came up since Oracle released its type II hypervisor Virtualbox for ARM…
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 testcases for Oracle Databases or use a Windows VM for tests of Windows programs. Since migrating to Virtualbox V7 it feels…
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 Intel x86-64 on Apple ARM (e.g. on Apple MacBook Pros with M1 or M2 processors). I.e. as the Oracle Database does…
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 this. First, last week we got our 20th dbi xChange where we meet with colleagues. And I love discussing with colleagues about what we…
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 down with full availability. Install Virtualbox I use Oracle VirtuaBox because I’m a big fan of Oracle products, especially when they…
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 to prepare a VM on my laptop and move it to the Cloud to get it accessible from everywhere. Here’s my first try. In…
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 running. First issue: Where to get the Solaris 8 distribution from. This turned out be quite easy, there is a support note which links…
In this blog I would like to talk about Shrinking a Virtual Machine with Oracle databases and MySQL which is install. Unfortunately, whilst Virtual Box will dynamically expand the hard drive as it’s required, it won’t dynamically shrink it again if you free up space in the VM. The good news is You can shrink a dynamic Virtual Box disk…
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 OCM exam. I’ve a few basic VirtualBox VM with single instance databases (11g and 12c, SE and EE, CDB and…
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 back. Here is the list of issues I’ve seen in one hour of Windows 10 At boot I had the…
In January, I promised to show you the next step of a procedure to manage templates with Virtual Box. Don’t worry, I have not forgotten but I was very busy! This step, the final one, consists on customizing of a virtual machine configuration at the start. VMware does it with Templates on ESX, using for example Sysprep for MS Windows guests.…
In my last posting of November 9, 2012, Manage templates manually with Oracle Virtual Box, I have presented a solution to duplicate virtual machines using Oracle/ Virtual Box. I did not show the scripts in this first publication, but I promised to tell you more about it… Let me present the case. In September 2012, I was asked to create…
