If you don’t want to use this virtual hard disk image with any other virtualisation software, proceed with the default selection, i.e, VDIĦ. Now in Hard Disk section select Create virtual hard disk now.ĥ. But if you want to install Oracle 11g Database on RHEL, assign at least 1GB RAM to your VM.Ĥ. Choose the Memory Size (RAM) that you want to assign to this Virtual Machine. As we are going to install 64-bit RHEL, choose Type as Linux and Version as Red Hat (64-bit) from the drop-downs.ģ. Now give a name to the Virtual Machine that you are creating. Launch VirtualBox and click on New in top pane to create a new Virtual Machine.Ģ. Steps to create a Virtual Machine to install RHEL 6.6ġ. As VirtualBox can be installed on Windows, Linux or Solaris machines too, the steps to install RHEL virtually on these host Operating Systems will be exactly similar as shown below. In this tutorial, we have used Oracle VM VirtualBox to install RHEL 6.6 on MAC OS X 10.11, El Capitan.
There are other virtualization software, like VMware, Parallels Desktop (for Mac OSX), Microsoft Hyper-V (Windows), KVM (Linux) etc. Oracle VM VirtualBox is a virtualization software that helps you to install different types of supported guest operating systems on your Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris host machines.
