Oracle EBS 12.2.6 on VirtualBox

Back in May, Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle VM Virtual Appliance for E-Business Suite 12.2.6 for download from the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud.

In this series of Blog posts I will detail how you can build an Oracle EBS 12.2.6 environment with VirtualBox for use on a laptop / PC.

Getting Started

Logon to the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud using you SSO credentials and search for ‘Oracle Virtual Appliance‘ , select the Product as below and click ‘Continue’ to download the Oracle VM Virtual Appliance for Oracle E-Business Suite.

Compatible with VirtualBox

As you can see from above, the Oracle VM Virtual Appliance for Oracle E-Business Suite supports both Oracle VM and Oracle VirtualBox. Once download the Virtual Appliance can be imported into VirtualBox for running on a laptop / PC.

The Oracle VM Virtual Appliances for Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.6.0.0 for x86 64bit is packaged in 19 files requiring 69.4 GB, so may take some considerable time to download depending upon your network / internet connection.

The Download

You can download the 19 Oracle VM Virtual Appliances files individually by clicking on the file name or them all use wget, if you have never used wget you can read the following post on how to use wget for downloading.

The distribution includes the entire Oracle EBS Technology and Apps stack including the example Vision database.

COMPONENT	VERSION
RDBMS Oracle Home	12.1.0.2
Application Code Level	Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.6 Release Update Pack (My Oracle Support Knowledge Document 2114016.1) + AD and TXK Delta 8 (My Oracle Support Knowledge Document 2159750.1)
Oracle Forms and Reports	10.1.2.3
WebLogic Server	10.3.6
Web Tier	11.1.1.9
JDK	JDK 1.7 build 1.7.0_121-b15
Java Plugin	J2SE 1.7
Critical Patch Update (CPU)	October 2016

In my next post I will detail how build an Oracle E-BS 12.2.6 environment within VirtualBox.

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