In this article, I will provide a detailed guide on Oracle client installation on Windows VirtualBox.We’ll walk you through each step of the process with a proper screenshot. Let’s get started with installing Oracle database software in Windows.
In the following steps, we will perform all the steps to install Oracle client 19c on Windows in my Windows VirtualBox winsrv.
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1. First log in to winsrv as an administrator, search for Computer Management, and click on it:
2. On the left side, click on Local Users and Groups > Users, right-click on Users, and select New User.
Create a user called Oracle then click on the Create button.
This user will be used as the administrator user. Tick on the password never expires.
3. In the same way create another user called oraclesvc. This user will be used as the service account.
4. On the left side, click on the Groups, and after that double click on the Administrators.
Add Oracle user to the administrator’s group:
5. Sign out from Winsrv Windows machine and log in as an Oracle user:
6. Now Open the File Explorer > This PC > Check the storage drives available in the system to install Oracle client for Windows:
7. Download the Oracle database 19c installation file for Windows x64 from this link.
8. Now place the downloaded file to the shared folder configured in your machine to access it through your VirtualBox Windows machine.
9. Now open the cmd prompt and run the command mkdir D:\oracle\product\19.0.0\db_1 to create the windows home directory:
10. Open the File Explorer > check the drive mapped to the shared folder (usually it is z drive):
Right-click on WINDOWS.X64_193000_db_home.zip file and select Extract All:
Enter the location D:\oracle\product\19.0.0\db_1 and click on the Extract button:
It will take some time. Please wait!
11. Go to the location D:\oracle\product\19.0.0\db_1 and double-click on the setup.exe file:
12. Select set up software only:
13. Select single instance database installation and proceed:
14. Select Enterprise Edition and click on Next:
15. Use existing Windows user oraclesvc and click on next:
16. Provide the Oracle base location and click on next:
17. Now you can save the response file and proceed with install:
18. Please check the details and wait for the installation:
19. Congratulations! Oracle client installation is completed successfully.
20. Now verify the Oracle 19c client installation:
a, Open the File Explorer and check for the Inventory directory:
C:\Program Files\Oracle\Inventory\ContentsXML
You will see the installed Oracle home:
b.Check the members of the groups ORA_DBA and ORA_INSTALL
Search for Computer Management and click on Local Users and Groups > Groups
We can see Oracle user is a member of ORA_DBA. This means Oracle users can log in to Oracle databases running on this machine as sysdba.
Also, oraclesvc user is a member of ORA_INSTALL because this user is an Oracle home user.
So installing Oracle database software in Windows is completed successfully. If you want to install the Oracle 19c client in Linux then you can follow my article Oracle 19c Client installation.