Ok, lets confirm our ‘Installation Destination’ The ‘Installation Summary’ guide you through the install requiring the completion of items maked with an exclamation mark before allowing you to proceed. Select language, here I have selected ‘English (United Kingdom)’ this automatically updates the keyboard, timezone and other regional settings. Oracle Linux 7.2 InstallerĬlick hit ‘I’ to start the install ant the Oracle Linux 7.2 splash screen. Use ‘Show All’ to return and click the large play button to launch the Oracle Linux installer. Select ‘Hard Disk (SCSI’), here you can add additional devices these will be presented as /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc, /dev/sdd etc… Here I have upped the /dev/sda from 20GB to 40GB. In this example I have increased the Memory to 4GB from 1GB and changed the Processor core count. Once complet click ‘Show All’ to return to the main configuration screen. add additional Network Interfaces, Hard Disks and chnage memory and processor sizes. You can now change the initial VM configuration e.g. Give your Virtual Machine a file name ‘Save As’ Select the required ISO, if you have previoulsy used an image Fusion will show it otherwise you will need to navigate to it.Ĭlick ‘Customize Settings’ to allow you to change the defaults. Ok, lets kick this off by starting VMware Fusion.Ĭlick ‘Continue’ to use a previoulsy downloaded image. Parallels Desktop is another widley used virtualisation product on the Mac, Parallels Desktop Pro now includes direct support for Docker, Vagrant, Chef and Jenkins so that may provide a source of intresting future Blog. If your a PC user you may have also come across VMware Workstation Player , this is free for personal use and is avaible for both Windows and Linux, Workstation Player is able to run VM’s created with either VMware Workstation Pro or VMware Fusion Pro and is a great way of sharing restricted or expiring VM’s, unfortantely there is no Mac OS X version as of yet. VMware Fusion provides support for big VM’s and some useful integration between your Mac and Windows VM’s. Please note these are licenceable products unlike VirtualBox, so you will need to either start a free trial of buy a licence before you use VMware Fusion. VMware Fusion is a sofware hypervisor for Mac OS X, it’s VMware’s Mac equivalent of VMware Workstation for Windows and Linux. I have seen several great Linux install guides for Oracle’s free VirtualBox but have never come across a version specifically for VMware Fusion, so here goes lets’s put that right.

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