It is a good idea to build servers for testing in seperate virtual machines, in order to have a seperated environment. Here we ll create Fedora Virtual Machine with VirtualBox running Oracle XE
- Get your Fedora 14 VirtualBox image from http://virtualboxes.org/images/fedora/.
Active user account(s) (username/password): root/tooroot, fedora/reverse
- Open "Virtual Media Manager" of VirtualBox and DnD in it the Fedora's VDI (VDI stands for something like VirtualBox Disk Image) that you just downloaded (after extracting it from rar)
- Create a Fedora Machine (if you name it FedoraSomething, eg Fedora14, will auto set the correct type)
- Set to use the existing Hard Disk that you configured above.
- Do not forget to set NAT using my related post VirtualBox: Configure networking for running server on virtual guest. In this case we are using the NAT way (we are going NATs :) ).
In our case we want to hit 1522 in my host machine in order to access the 1521 in my guest. So we must run the command:
VBoxManage modifyvm "Fedora14" --natpf1 "guestdb,tcp,,1522,,1521"
Install OracleXE
1.
Download Oracle XE using Firefox
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/express-edition/downloads/102xelinsoft-102048.html
(Firefox will save it in ~/Downloads)
2.
From home dir
$ rpm -ivh ./Downloads/oracle-xe-univ-10.2.0.1-1.0.i386.rpm
3.
When the aboce finished you ll be prompted to
$ /etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure
in order to enter the following configuration information:
- A valid HTTP port for the Oracle Database XE graphical user interface (the default is 8080)
- A valid port for the Oracle database listener (the default is 1521)
- A password for the SYS and SYSTEM administrative user accounts
- Whether you want the database to start automatically when the computer starts. If you enter Yes, then the database starts immediately
I ve used the default values.
4.
Finally, set machine to run in Runlevel 3 in order to minimize mem consuption
Open termnal, login as su, and run
$init 3
4b.
If you want you can even better set default runlevel to be 3 and reduce memory of Virtual machine to be below 250MB.
To set default runlevel to 3
Go to /etc/inittab file and set
id:
3:initdefault:
eg.
# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
# 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
# 1 - Single user mode
# 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)
# 3 - Full multiuser mode
# 4 - unused
# 5 - X11
# 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#
id:3:initdefault:
Then in VirtualBox settings set Fedora image to use 250MB RAM
Dig more:
http://serafeimk.blogspot.com/ (Special thanx to Serafim for his precious tips!)
http://virtualboxes.org/images/fedora/.
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B25329_01/doc/install.102/b25144/toc.htm#CIHHJEHF
