Install Oracle Linux 6.3 in Virtual Box

Oracle Linux 6.3 has been released for nearly two years, and its functions have been greatly improved. It has enhanced KVM, online file volume resizing, and LVM supports raid4, 5, 6, supports more virtual CPUs and larger memory. For details, refer to the official Oracle documentation. This document describes how to install Oracle Linux 6.3 Based on Virtual Box (4.3.6.

 

1. Create a VM

1) Click New to create a virtual machine and enter the Virtual Machine name and corresponding OS type and version number.

(Note: The following description does not provide any special description, which means you can click next or forward after performing the operation instructions)

2) determine the memory size of the VM and set it as needed.

3) Add a disk drive

Select VDI disk type and use Dynamic Allocation

Enter the disk size. Here we set it to 60 GB.

4) settings after Virtual Machine Creation

Select the created virtual machine and click Settings to perform other Settings.

Set to start using the optical drive iso file as follows:

Set network interface parameters. Here, the network interface parameters are set to use the Bridged mode.

Other settings: Set whether to share the clipboard as needed, drag and drop (recommended), remove Floppy, set the number of CPU cores as needed, and enable Serial Ports, Audio, and USB.

2. Install Oracle Linux 6.3

1) Click the created virtual machine and click Start in the toolbar to Start the Virtual Machine for installation.

Select skip to skip media Detection

For the remaining steps, click Next, select the required language, keyboard layout, and so on, as shown in the figure below.

 

2) Select Basic Storage as the Storage type.

Initialize the drive

3) configure the hostname

Enter the hostname. The network can be configured or installed before configuration.

4) configure the network (click configure network in the hostname Configuration window)

Click Apply, and then click Close to Close the network configuration dialog box. Click Next.

4) configure the time zone (Omitted) and select Asia/ShangHai

 

5) configure the root account password

6) configure the partition type. Select All spaces here. Data on the disk will be lost.

Select Reviewand modify partitioning layer and adjust it in the next window as needed. The default value is used here.

The following is an introduction to formatting a partition table. Click Format

The following message shows you how to modify and create a partition.

7) configure the boot System

8) Select the installation package type

Select Basic Server/Oracle Linux server and select Customize now.

Select the following Desktop items to install the installation package

9) Start copying the installation package

10) restart the server

3. Configuration after installation

1) License information

2) configuration Update (ignore and re-configure later)

3) create a user. skip this step.

4) configure the date and time. If yes, use the local time server.

5) whether to enable kernel dump

6) log on to the system

 

The root login is used, so there is a prompt

Congratulations! Go to the desktop.

7) Other settings

Use the root user to disable the firewall as needed

# Service iptables stop

# Chkconfig iptables off

 

Disable SELINUX as needed

# Vi/etc/selinux/config

SELINUX=DISABLE