

iso file at that moment (that was OracleLinux 8.5) from the Oracle Linux ISOs website: So the first step here was therefore to create a new VM and to use it to install Oracle Linux. I had never used Oracle Linux before, so I wanted to test it, and it had seen that it had some preconfigured Oracle packages that would ease the installation and configuration of some Oracle products. I have been using VirtualBox for that purpose during years and I decided to create a new VM with VirtualBox and to start with fresh installation of Oracle Linux 9.5.

I am a great fan of Virtual Machines (VM) because they allow you to test software and operating system without having to reinstall everything on your computer.

Oracle Linux 8.5Īs I was starting a new step in my BI journey, I wanted to do a full Oracle BI Server installation from scratch. In this post we are going to see, step by step, how to install Oracle Linux 8.5 inside a VirtualBox VM.
