Oracle linux iso download for virtualbox

By default it is English but you can change it. Once you defined your favourite language click on the Continue button. By default, the Oracle server is set to Minimal installation mode which means no Graphical user interface.

And as per the server environment, the Add-Ons also listed on the right side. After this use the Done button. To set the root password click on the Root password option. In this same way for the user, select the User creation. Once the root password setup is done. Go to the User creation and type the full name of the user you want to create on Oracle server plus username and password you want to assign to that.

Finally, click on the Done button. Finally, after the installation is completed and we have the Reboot button. The initial step after rebooting is to accept the license to use the Oracle server. Click on the License information and accept the agreement. Finally, the Oracle Linux server is successfully installed on VirtualBox. If you want to install it on a real machine, still the steps mentioned here for installation will be the same.

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. To download the Oracle Linux, first of all, we need to register an account on their official website. And click on the Create Account button.

The account registration form will open. Fill in all the details such as email ID, name, country, password and more. Then click on the Create Account button.

After this, you will get an account activation link on your email, registered with Oracle. Click on that to activate the account. To sign in, use the same email ID and password you used for creating the Oracle account above. After getting a sign in, you will see a search box, enter text- Oracle Linux and click on search button. The version of Oracle Linux you want to download, for that, just click the Add to Cart button given at front of it.

The above action will add the Oracle enterprise-class Linux to cart. This will build and install the vbox kernel modules needed.

In case the system is set up to autorun a CD it should just open the following autorun dialogue if not select the CD symbol, choose open, then choose Open Autorun Prompt.

After having entered your credentials for root access the guest additions will build as seen from the terminal output:. Note 3 In some systems e. Then we can install the guest additions by opening a terminal on the mounted guest additions.

In Lubuntu or Ubuntu Server guests we additionally need to install the GNU C compiler gcc and the make utility in the guest system to be able to compile the guest additions. It is not a prerequisite for Guest Additions but if used it should be installed before we install the Guest Additions. The Guest Additions. We then may install Guest Additions by typing the following commands:. In case something went wrong with installing the guest additions, or the guest OS can not boot after installing we may have to remove the additions.

You could also try the following this worked for me after I had to reinstall the Guest Addtitions after Update Manager killed them. Solution found here:. This found and updated the correct version of the VirtualBox Guest Additions and my system seems to work properly again, and I'm assuming this will also work if Guest Additions are failing to install from the menu item.

One other thing of note. I originally tried to run this under the fish shell - make sure you're using bash i. Within the guest operating system, install the package virtualbox-guest-dkms.