March 26, 2025

OL9 VM

How to build an Oracle Linux 9 VM for installing Oracle Database 19c

This doc will cover how to build an Oracle Linux 9 VM for installing the Oracle database. Ref scripts in github

Build the VM

This step leverages the build_vm_ol9.sh script to build the VM

bash build_vm_ol9.sh ol9

Disable selinux

Set selinux to permissive. This will print warnings, but will not deny anything

sudo vi /etc/selinux/config
SELINUX=permissive

Disable firewall

Disable the firewall

March 2, 2025

KVM Clones

How to build and spin up a VM using an image downloaded from the Internet

I recently started an online class which provided a VM image in an OVA format. I run Linux as my main OS and like to use libvirt and KVM as they seem as close to native as possible. In other words, with libvirt and KVM, I am running a virtualization platform that is as close to the Linux OS as possible. ie. it is leveraging virtualization support in the kernel itself, and libvirt seems to be the most commonly used virtualization software on Linux.