November 2022

We recently released a series of recordings dedicated to Oracle VM VirtualBox 7. You can follow this blog series and view the recordings on VirtualBox 7 capabilities and new features below. Further information is also available on the VirtualBox 7 official announcement!

VirtualBox 7: Export local virtual machine to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

VirtualBox supports exporting a local virtual machine to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and this capability is available in the GUI. The Technical Paper “Journey to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with Oracle VM VirtualBox” shows all the deep-dive technical steps, requirements and further details. This recording shows an example of moving/cloning your local virtual machine to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

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VirtualBox 7: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure instance management

VirtualBox 7 now supports Oracle Cloud Infrastructure instances management. With the VirtualBox UI you can easily manage local virtual machines and remote instances, running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, by the same VirtualBox user interface. View this recording to see all of the management capabilities in one shot!

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VirtualBox 7: Cloud Network for VirtualBox virtual machines

VirtualBox 7 now supports the option to run a local VirtualBox VM as it is running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. This recording shows the "Cloud Network" capability with a step-by-step guide.

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VirtualBox 7: Import an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure instance

VirtualBox 7 supports the option to import an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Instance to a local VirtualBox virtual machine. This recording shows the "Import from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure" capability with a step-by-step guide.

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VirtualBox 7: Get started with Documentation and References

On October 18th we announced Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.0. This new major release introduced many new features and capabilities and, at the same time, includes the BETA release for Apple Silicon devices. This blog provides the most interesting and important links related to VirtualBox 7 release.

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Configure VirtualBox 7 to work with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Before getting on all the operations and options shown above, you have to properly configure VirtualBox 7 to act and work with your own Oracle Cloud Infrastructure tenant. The following recording shows the steps to create the VirtualBox profile from the user cloud information and verify the integration between VirtualBox 7 and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is correctly working.

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Announcing Oracle Linux Automation Manager 2.0

For Oracle Linux customers that need modern provisioning, deployment, configuration management, and task automation, Oracle Linux Automation Manager 2.0 is now available. It enables users across an organization—from development and operations to security and network teams—to create, share, and manage infrastructure automation tasks. Oracle Linux Automation Manager Release 2.0 has a new, decentralized, scalable architecture. It is comprised of three main components, Control Plane, Execution Environments and Service Mesh. Learn more.

New Oracle Cloud Native Environment Hands-on Labs on Oracle Help Center

We have a set of free, hands-on lab exercises for Oracle Cloud Native Environment that you can find on Oracle Help Center (OHC) Learn. OHC contains tutorials and hands-on lab exercises for a variety of Oracle Cloud services and on-premises products. Each hands-on lab provides step-by-step procedures to complete specific tasks in an Oracle-provided free lab environment. Get started here !

Why Oracle Database runs best on Oracle Linux

Oracle Linux offers out-of-the-box optimizations for your Oracle Databases that Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, and other Linux distributions don’t. Learn more about all the advantages of using Oracle Linux for Oracle Database deployments. Read the technical brief.

Hands-on example on how to switch from CentOS to Oracle Linux

Oracle Linux is 100% application binary compatible with RHEL and CentOS and a simple script is all that’s needed to switch. View the script to switch to Oracle Linux.

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Next Session: How to get started with multicloud Kubernetes

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