Comments on: Oracle 11gR2 RAC on Oracle Linux 6.1 using VirtualBox… http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2011/09/27/oracle-11gr2-rac-on-oracle-linux-6-1-using-virtualbox/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=oracle-11gr2-rac-on-oracle-linux-6-1-using-virtualbox Oracle related rants (and lots of off-topic stuff)... Wed, 22 May 2013 20:24:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Tim... http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2011/09/27/oracle-11gr2-rac-on-oracle-linux-6-1-using-virtualbox/comment-page-1/#comment-176101 Tim... Thu, 26 Jul 2012 07:32:20 +0000 http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/?p=2237#comment-176101 Hi.

You install VirtualBox on whatever operating system you have on your laptop. I have Linux on my desktop, so I installed VirtualBox on that, then installed Linux in each VM. If you have Windows on your laptop, then you will install VirtualBox on that, then install Linux in your VMs. VirtualBox can be installed on top of Linux, Windows or OS X.

Note. You need at least 8G of memory on your laptop, preferably 12+G to get RAC running successfully on it.

Try reading this before you start:

http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/vm/a-cure-for-virtual-insanity.php

Cheers

Tim…

]]> By: Nikil http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2011/09/27/oracle-11gr2-rac-on-oracle-linux-6-1-using-virtualbox/comment-page-1/#comment-176098 Nikil Thu, 26 Jul 2012 05:44:16 +0000 http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/?p=2237#comment-176098 I am newbie and I am trying to Install oracle 11gR2 rac on my laptop. In the begining you have mentioned VirtualBox (Must be version 4.1.2 or later) rpm -Uvh VirtualBox-4.1-4.1.2_73507_fedora15-1.x86_64.. Do we need to Install first linux software and on top of it I need to Install virtual box?
If so It will have 4 flavors.. first window7 ontop of Linux software. On top linux rpm -Uvh VirtualBox-4.1-4.1.2_73507_fedora15-1.x86_64 software.Inside this I need to create again linux? Correct If I am wrong…

Or

Your using linux machine. On top of it you have Installed rpm -Uvh VirtualBox-4.1-4.1.2_73507_fedora15-1.x86_64?

Could you please help me. I just graduated and I am trying to learn RAC.

Your help will be highly appreciated.

]]> By: Tim... http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2011/09/27/oracle-11gr2-rac-on-oracle-linux-6-1-using-virtualbox/comment-page-1/#comment-175467 Tim... Tue, 03 Jul 2012 10:41:35 +0000 http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/?p=2237#comment-175467 Derek: Problems with the installation usually come about because of one of the following:

- Under-specced hardware for the host OS.
- VMs with too like memory allocated.
- People miss out specific prerequisites.
- People do not use the software listed, thinking different versions will be OK.

I’ve not seen your issue. It all just works for me.

Cheers

Tim…

]]> By: Derek http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2011/09/27/oracle-11gr2-rac-on-oracle-linux-6-1-using-virtualbox/comment-page-1/#comment-175440 Derek Mon, 02 Jul 2012 13:28:30 +0000 http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/?p=2237#comment-175440 Tim, I can’t get past step 4 of 9 for the grid install as the splash screen just freezes and then it looses it writing for a while. It comes back later but it is very very very very very slow. A click takes almost 2.5 minutes to show anything. Can’t see anything in the logs but I suspect it is either java or display. I just can’t understand why. Have you seen this before? Many thanks

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