If you don’t already have VirtualBox, download it from the VirtualBox website. The virtual appliance comes preinstalled with Oracle Linux and Oracle Database (as well as other handy tools, such as SQL Developer, and hands-on-labs).īelow are the steps I used to install Oracle on my Mac using VirtualBox. You simply import the appliance to VirtualBox. This appliance makes it easy to install Oracle Database on a Mac, because you don’t need to install any other operating system first. This is because Oracle has created a virtual appliance specifically for Oracle Database (the aforementioned Oracle DB Developer VM). You can also use it to install Oracle on your Mac. For example, you can use it to run Windows or Linux on a Mac, etc.

It enables you to create virtual machines (VMs) on your computer. VirtualBox is a virtualisation application (also by Oracle corporation). In this tutorial, I install Oracle Database using the Oracle DB Developer VM (the VM stands for Virtual Machine).

In fact, Oracle provides us with a virtual appliance precisely for that purpose.

If you’re a developer, and you just want to have Oracle Database running on your local machine, there are ways to do it. Here’s a quick and easy way to install Oracle Database on a Mac.įirst up, Oracle isn’t available natively on the Mac.

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