You need to update VBox Guest Additions – that does not include removing the old version of this package, so we have to do this ourselves:
root # pkgrm SUNWvboxguest root # pkgadd -d /media/VBOXADDITIONS/VBoxSolarisAdditions.pkg all
Category: VirtualBox
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“Oracle Solaris 11” VM images to run in e.g. VirtualBox
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Pre-Built Developer VMs for Oracle VM VirtualBox: Oracle DB, Solaris, …
It looks rather, rather intriguing to run a ready-made VM with Oracle DB. Let’s see, how and wether it will work out! A ready-made VM with Oracle DB: That would trueyl be the easiest way to improve my Oracle DB, and SQL, and PL/SQL skills – together with the fine o’Reilly books on the related topics. How often did I only abandon this idea, because it wasn’t that easy to install Oracle DB on Suse Linux…
Amongst the various choices I went for the “Database App Development VM” (still valid and unchanged on 2014-11-12):
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/enterprise-edition/databaseappdev-vm-161299.html (still valid and unchanged on 2014-11-12, but they say, they updated the document in September, so it may also be reasonable to download the “appliance” again)
Oracle Enterprise Linux 6 account details: Username and password is oracle.
And this very nice software will run on the very nice and fat Mac mini due to arrive tomorrow resp. on Wednesday. The “Oracle DB VM” will have its own and separate IP address on the LAN, that way the Oracle DB server will just be available on the LAN – w/o any restrictions because of its VM environment. This is going to be exciting and … breath-taking … – I will be able to learn Oracle DB and put that on my skill list.
Update 2014-07-16: For starting the Oracle Linux Server you need to have the VirtualBox “Extension Pack” installed as well – they don’t mention that on the page quoted above.
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booting a VirtualBox VM on a MacBook Pro from a Win8.1 DVD: “FATAL: Could not read from the boot medium! System halted.”
- I had tried in vain booting that DVD with changed parameters in the VM set-up.
- I searched the web for the error message “FATAL: Could not read from the boot medium! System halted.“.
- I did not simply try to navigate the DVD in the OS X Finder – but doing that at a rather early stage would have saved me many hours.
- Once I did, I noticed, that the Finder wasn’t able to access the DVD.
- I already planned to get the DVD exchanged by the PC shop, but I thought, I should try, what they would go to try: access the DVD in Windows PC; there wasn’t any Windows PC available, but an Ubuntu Linux PC was a proper replacement: everything was fine there, …
- and there I created a nice ISO image from the DVD,
- and VirtualBox was rather able to properly mount that ISO image,
- and everything went rather, rather smoothly from thereon.
- Now I have a functional Win8.1 VM on my MacBook Pro running OS X.
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Win8.1 as a VirtualBox VM on Apple’s Mac OS X
- https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Guest_OSes : regarding Windows 8 they say: “Requires AMD-V or VT-x. Guest Additions have small remaining issues.”
- https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewforum.php?f=2 : (Guest systems > Windows Guests)
- http://www.heise.de/download/windows-8.1-1192088.html
I want to run a UK-English Windows 8.1 in a VM. I purchased a DVD.
VirtualBox 4.3.12 offers Windows 8.1 as a supported guest operating system. Creating the VM looks easy. When I attempt to boot from the DVD, this message gets displayed after a couple of minutes:
FATAL: Could not read from the boot medium! System halted.
This usually means, the DVD is corrupted – but is it really corrupted?
I got a real PC to boot from that DVD, so that DVD is not corrupted. Mac OS X resp. my MacBook Pro is simply not capable to properly mount that DVD, and it also doesn’t let VirtualBox properly access the DVD contents.
I created an ISO image from that DVD on some Linux DVD in the “hotel”, where I am stayed at that time.
Creating the VM from that ISO image simply succeeded.
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VirtualBox 4.3.8 released
This time I had difficulties updating the “extension pack” for my WinXP VM. The suggested double-clicking on the downloaded file did not work, there was no application associated. But the extension pack was also mounted to my D: drive. I “auto-played” that, and that got it going.
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a VirtualBox WinXP VM (on a MacBook Pro) doing a “Microsoft Update” for ever
No idea, why it’s taking that long.
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VirtualBox vs iSCSI
- Richard Horwood on “Virtualbox, iSCSI targets and teleport” (2010) (somebody mentions there, that addiscsidisk got replaced and explains how)
- Johannes Schlüter on “iSCSI devices in VirtualBox” (2010)
- http://www.synology.com/us/solutions/iSCSI/
iSCSI supposes Gigabit LAN, so that’s a good reason to replace my last non-Gigabit FRITZ!Box by a Gigabit one.Somebody will get my last FRITZ!Box 7270 (non-Gigabit), and I will get me a new FRITZ!Box 7490.