Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Installation on Linux in Virtual Environment - Part 1 of 3

Part - 1:  Preparation

This is Part - 1 of Oracle E-Business SuiteR12 Installation on Linux in virtual environment series.

1.      Download Required Software

·         Oracle VM VirtualBox:

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Download VirtualBox 4.3.6 for Windows hosts x86/amd64

·         Oracle Enterprise Linux:

https://edelivery.oracle.com/linux

Download Oracle Linux Release 5 Update 7 for x86 (32 Bit)

Name: Oracle Linux Release 5 Update 7 for x86 (32 Bit)

Part Number: V27571-01

Size (Bytes): 3.0G

·         Oracle E-Business Suite:

https://edelivery.oracle.com/

Download required software of Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.1 Media Pack for Linux x86.

2.      Install Oracle VM VirtualBox

Install Oracle VM VirtualBox as per standard windows installation.

Change Default Machine folder:

Open Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager and navigate to File > Preferences

Under General tab, Default Machine folder: select a path where you want to install virtual machine (in my case, D:\VMs) and click OK.

3.      Create virtual machine

Once Oracle VM VirtualBox installed, open it and then do followings:

·         Click “New” icon to create a new Virtual Machine.

Name: EBSR12-32bit

Type: Linux

Version: Oracle

And click “Next”

·         Assign Memory Size: 2048 MB & click “Next”.

·         Select “Create a virtual hard drive now” & click “Next”.

·         Select “VMDK (Virtual Machine Disk)” & click “Next”.

·         Select “Dynamically allocated”, checked “Split into files of less than 2GB” & click “Next”.

·         Select File location (in my case, D:\VMs\R12\R12.vmdk), Size: 120 GB & click “Create”.

·         Select newly created virtual machine “R12” & click on “Settings” icon

Under “Network”, select “Adaptor 1” and do followings:

·         Enable Network Adaptor: Checked

·         Attached to: Bridge Adaptor

·         Name: Select either Wifi link or Network connection whichever you are using

And click OK.

·         (Optional) You can also increase RAM & Processor if your system has more memory & processor.

This completes the first part of Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Installation on Linux in virtual environment.

Part 1 covers the preparation for Download Required Software, Installation of VirtualBox and creation of virtual machine.

Part 2 covers the installation of Linux & preparation of E-Business Suite installation.

Part 3 covers the actual installation of E-Business Suite and basic post-install steps

Hope this will helpful !

All The Best!