VirtualBox shared folder is not working, and the VirtualBOx shows below warning message:
“The VirtualBox Guest Additions do not appear to be available on this virtual machine, and shared folders cannot be used without them. to use shared folders inside the virtual machine, please install the Guest Additions in they are not installed, or re-install them if they are not working properly, by selecting Insert Guest Additions CD image from the Devices menu. if they are installed but the machine is not yet fully started then shared folders will be available once it.”
VirtualBox Guest Additions Error
After selecting Insert Guest Additions CD image from the Devices menu, we can see the Additions CD images are mounted.
[root@racnode1 cdrom]# ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox 6.1.2 Guest Additions for Linux........
VirtualBox Guest Additions installer
Removing installed version 6.1.2 of VirtualBox Guest Additions...
Copying additional installer modules ...
Installing additional modules ...
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Starting.
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel
modules. This may take a while.
VirtualBox Guest Additions: To build modules for other installed kernels, run
VirtualBox Guest Additions: /sbin/rcvboxadd quicksetup <version>
VirtualBox Guest Additions: or
VirtualBox Guest Additions: /sbin/rcvboxadd quicksetup all
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Building the modules for kernel
4.14.35-1902.10.7.el7uek.x86_64.
[root@racnode1 cdrom]#
[root@racnode1 ~]# ls -ltr /usr/src/kernels/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 20 Jan 6 15:33 3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 20 Jan 6 15:33 3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Feb 23 02:54 4.14.35-1902.10.7.el7uek.x86_64
[root@racnode1 ~]#
Upgrade VirtualBox Additions from VirtualBox 6.1.2 to 6.1.4 successfully.
[root@racnode1 cdrom]# ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox 6.1.4 Guest Additions for Linux........
VirtualBox Guest Additions installer
Removing installed version 6.1.2 of VirtualBox Guest Additions...
Copying additional installer modules ...
Installing additional modules ...
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Starting.
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel
modules. This may take a while.
VirtualBox Guest Additions: To build modules for other installed kernels, run
VirtualBox Guest Additions: /sbin/rcvboxadd quicksetup <version>
VirtualBox Guest Additions: or
VirtualBox Guest Additions: /sbin/rcvboxadd quicksetup all
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Building the modules for kernel
4.14.35-1902.10.7.el7uek.x86_64.
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Running kernel modules will not be replaced until
the system is restarted
[root@racnode1 cdrom]#
Sometimes we need disable automatic startup of RAC databases , due to server resource issues or server maintenance, etc. Here are a couple of common methods :
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Here is an example of how to create a multitenant oracle database with DBCA in Oracle 12.2.0.1.
We will create a multitenant database with 1 CDB and 1 PDB. For CDB, all the components are selected and installed. But for PDB, only following three components are selected and installed :
Oracle JVM
Oracle Text
Oracle Multimedia
1)Startup VNCSERVER on node 1.
[oracle@racnode1 ~]$ vncserver :1
New 'racnode1.virtuallab:1 (oracle)' desktop is racnode1.virtuallab:1
Starting applications specified in /home/oracle/.vnc/xstartup
Log file is /home/oracle/.vnc/racnode1.virtuallab:1.log
[oracle@racnode1 ~]$
[oracle@racnode1 ~]$ srvctl status database -d RACTESTB
Instance RACTESTB1 is running on node racnode1
Instance RACTESTB2 is running on node racnode2
[oracle@racnode1 ~]$
SQL>show con_name;
SQL> show con_name;
CON_NAME
------------------------------
CDB$ROOT
SQL> select COMP_NAME, STATUS from dba_registry;
COMP_NAME STATUS
---------------------------------------- ----------------
Oracle Database Catalog Views VALID
Oracle Database Packages and Types VALID
JServer JAVA Virtual Machine VALID
Oracle XDK VALID
Oracle Database Java Packages VALID
OLAP Analytic Workspace VALID
Oracle Real Application Clusters VALID
Oracle XML Database VALID
Oracle Workspace Manager VALID
Oracle Text VALID
Oracle Multimedia VALID
Spatial VALID
Oracle OLAP API VALID
Oracle Application Express VALID
14 rows selected.
SQL> alter session set container=ractestbpdb;
Session altered.
SQL> show con_name;
CON_NAME
------------------------------
RACTESTBPDB
SQL> select COMP_NAME, STATUS from dba_registry;
COMP_NAME STATUS
---------------------------------------- -----------
Oracle Database Catalog Views VALID
Oracle Database Packages and Types VALID
JServer JAVA Virtual Machine VALID
Oracle XDK VALID
Oracle Database Java Packages VALID
Oracle Real Application Clusters VALID
Oracle XML Database VALID
Oracle Workspace Manager VALID
Oracle Text VALID
Oracle Multimedia VALID
10 rows selected.