I will provide a detailed guide on How to export appliance in VirtualBox in this article. We’ll walk you through each step of the process with proper screenshots.
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1.Open VirtualBox and select the virtual machine or group to export. In my case, it is an RAC database so I have selected the group called RAC:
2. Now click on File and select export appliance to export appliance in VirtualBox :
3. Under the virtual machines section, crosscheck if the virtual machines are selected that you are going to export:
4. Now click on Format settings and choose where to export virtual appliance. In my case, I have created a folder called OVA FILES under E drive, and inside OVA FILES I have renamed and kept the OVA file called “Oracle_19c_RAC.ova”.
5. Select the MAC address Policy to “Include all network adapter MAC addresses” and select “Include ISO image files”:
6. The next part is Appliance settings. Here no need to change anything. If you do not have much CPU in your host computer/laptop then you can decrease the CPU value from 4 to 2 for both the nodes(node1 and node2). Click on Finish once done.
Congratulations! We have successfully exported the appliance in VirtualBox. If you want to import the appliance in VirtualBox then you can follow my other article import appliance in VirtualBox.