Step by Step R12.2.12 EBS installation on Oracle Virtual Box

Oracle recently released a VM template for R12.2.12 on the Software delivery cloud. In this blog post, we will be checking step by step how to build R12.2.12  with a Virtual box on the Desktop or Laptop

(1)  First install VirtualBox on the Desktop or Laptop. Check the below post on how to do the installation

Step by Step instructions for Oracle Virtual Box Installation

(2)  Now download the R12.2.12 VM appliance

To download the VM Virtual Appliance for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2.12:
Go to https://edelivery.oracle.com/, and click the Sign In button.
You are now signed in to the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud.

On the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud page, perform the following tasks:
Filter Products By Selecting the “Linux/OVM/VMs” check box.
Search by: Select “Release” from the drop-down list.
In the text field, enter “Oracle VM Virtual Appliance for Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.12”.

Click the Continue button.

The Download Queue region displays the selected “Oracle VM Virtual Appliance for Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.12” media pack and the platform information.

Click the Continue button again.
This retrieves the “Oracle VM Virtual Appliance for Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.12” media pack.

Click the Continue button again, and accept the Oracle Standard Terms and Restrictions. You must do so before you can download the desired media pack.
The File Download window appears with your selected “Oracle VM Virtual Appliance for Oracle E-Business Suite (12.2.12) for x86 64-bit” media pack.

Download the package and thus the zip files that contain the associated appliance.

The Oracle VM Virtual Appliances for Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.12.0.0 for x86 64bit is packaged in 10 files requiring 68 GB, so may take some considerable time to download depending upon your network/internet connection.

You can Use Download Manager to download the file or wget option

The virtual appliance delivers the full software stack, including the Oracle Linux 7.9 (64-bit) operating system, Oracle E-Business Suite, and additional required technology components. The embedded technology components are listed below:

Component	Version
RDBMS Oracle Home	Oracle Database 19c (19.18 RU)
Application Code Level	Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.12 Release Update Pack (Document 2876726.1) R12.AD.C.Delta.14 and R12.TXK.C.Delta.14 (Document 1617461.1) EBS System Schema Migration – Consolidated patch (Document 2774309.1) EBS System Schema Migration – Completion patch (Document 2755875.1) Technology consolidated patches for database and middle-tier tech stack components (Document 1594274.1 and Document 2877607.1) Oracle E-Business Suite Data Removal Tool (DRT) patches (Document 2388237.1)
Oracle Forms and Reports	10.1.2.3
WebLogic Server	10.3.6.0.230117
Web Tier	11.1.1.9
JDK	1.7.0_371
Java Plugin	Oracle Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 8 Update 361
Critical Patch Update (CPU)	April 2023 for Oracle E-Business Suite (Document 2933342.1) January 2023 (Document 2916871.1) for Oracle Database Release 19c, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Java, JRE, etc.

3)  Reconstructing and Staging the Downloaded Appliance

Now we need to Unzip these 10 Zips and Concatenate the 10 files to create the final file

a) Unzip all the 10 files

You will need an additional 80G space for storing the Unzipped files

For Unix, we can use the below command also to unzip

for i in *.zip
do
unzip $i
done

b) Assemble the 10 files

Assemble the files using the command below on Windows

type Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.12_VISION_INSTALL.ova.00 Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.12_VISION_INSTALL.ova.01 Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.12_VISION_INSTALL.ova.02 Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.12_VISION_INSTALL.ova.03 Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.12_VISION_INSTALL.ova.04 Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.12_VISION_INSTALL.ova.05 Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.12_VISION_INSTALL.ova.06 Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.12_VISION_INSTALL.ova.07 Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.12_VISION_INSTALL.ova.08 Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.12_VISION_INSTALL.ova.09 Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.12_VISION_INSTALL.ova.10 

On Unix, the following can be used

cat Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.12_VISION_INSTALL.ova.00 \
Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.12_VISION_INSTALL.ova.01 \
Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.12_VISION_INSTALL.ova.02 \
Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.12_VISION_INSTALL.ova.03 \
Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.12_VISION_INSTALL.ova.04 \
Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.12_VISION_INSTALL.ova.05 \
Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.12_VISION_INSTALL.ova.06 \
Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.12_VISION_INSTALL.ova.07 \
Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.12_VISION_INSTALL.ova.08 \
Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.12_VISION_INSTALL.ova.09 \
Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.12_VISION_INSTALL.ova.10 \
 > Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.12_VISION_INSTALL.ova

You will need an additional 75G space for creating the final file

Now  we are ready with the Final ova to import into Virtual Box

Check the below post to read further steps

Step by Step R12.2.6 EBS installation on Virtual Box Part -2

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