R12 – Virtualbox Connection

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. [...]

Windows 7

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 [...]

R12 – OEL Login Script

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 double dots to keep assign variables to the current environment.

#!/bin/bash ORACLE_SID=VIS [...]

R12 – Managing

This article applies to EBS 12.0.4 on OEL5.3.
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 Oracle and run login script:
$ . ./vis.sh
Ensure you also got the first dot so it is the current environment you are [...]

R12 – Hardware and Software

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 [...]

OEL – Installation

This article applies to OEL 5.3.
I recommend you to start with this article to get R12 up and running.
This flavour of Linux is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5) so if you can’t find the answer here google for RHEL issues instead.
Having played around with this operating system for a while I have [...]