So you got R12 up and running and want to connect to it from a Vbox machine?
I’m running R12.0.4 on OEL5.3 with Virtualbox 2.2.2 having a Windows 7 machine.
R12
R12 is installed on OEL with the hostname: localhost.localdomain
Firefox works locally against R12 so the EBS stack in working at this point.
Start the database, listener and apps. [...]
This post is written in Windows 7 RC running in Virtualbox inside Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) 5.3 – good fun!
OEL is in reality a Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which is a bit amputated in term of applications and drivers.
The reason for this constellation is OEL 5.3 Supports eBusiness Suite R12 and RDBMS 10g.
Next step is [...]
I recommend you to start with this article to get R12 up and running.
Firefox
Firefox 3 does not work with R12. I could get forms to work however framework pages had problems with buttons. So install Firefox 2 instead.
Java Plug-in
For R12.0.4 on OEL desktop you want to use JRE 1.5.0.13 otherwise you have to fiddle with [...]
Use this script (vis.sh) to initialise the Oracle environment.
I recommend you to start with this article to get R12 up and running.
Run as Oracle user:
$ . ./vis.sh
Note the dot and space in front of a script to assign variables to the current environment.
#!/bin/bash [...]
This article applies to:
EBS 12.0.4 on OEL5.3 EBS 12.1.1 on OEL5.4 RDBMS 10g on OEL5.3 RDBMS 11g on OEL5.3 and OEL5.4
I recommend you to start with this article to get R12 up and running.
Login
This is my own login script which you can see here.
Login to OEL as [...]
This is the hardware and software I use for the R12 Laptop.
I recommend you to start with this article to get R12 up and running.
Laptop
My laptop is a Dell XPS M1530 with the following specs:
CPU
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T8300 (2.40 GHz, 800 MHz FSB, 3 MB L2 cache)
Memory
3072MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [1x2048+1x1024]
Video [...]
This article applies to version 12.0.4.
I recommend you to start with this article to get R12 up and running.
Download
Oracle E-Business Suite – EBS from http://edelivery.oracle.com/
Rapid Install patch 6919017 from http://metalink.oracle.com
Transfer Files
Boot into Ubuntu and transfer files to the /oracle partition for example /oracle/install
Unzip
Boot [...]
As a functional and technical consultant it is always useful to have a demo environment.
What about installing R12 VIS on your LAPTOP?
Well easier said than done.
Just the download is a daunting task – unbelievable 35Gb for 12.0.4
So check your broadband contract for any cap and excess charges before downloading this much.
Also use a download manager [...]
