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OS Anonym. Linux MSC. Linux SCI. Rate this project. Some of the special features of Oracle Linux include a custom-build and rigorously-tested Linux kernel called "Oracle Unbreakable Kernel", tight integration with Oracle's hardware and software products including most database applications, and "zero downtime patching" - a feature that enables administrators to update the kernel without a reboot.

DistroWatch Gallery. Distribution Release: Oracle Linux 8. Simon Coter has announced the release of Oracle Linux 8. Oracle Linux brings the latest open-source innovations, business-critical performance, and security optimizations for cloud and on-premises deployment. For new installations, UEK R6 is enabled and installed by default and is the default kernel on first boot. The detailed release notes provide further technical details. Distribution Release: Oracle Linux 7.

UEK Release 6 is based on the mainline Linux kernel 5. Oracle Linux, an enterprise-class server distribution built from the source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, has been updated to version 8. The announcement was actually made on 6th May, but the product's installation ISO image only appeared on public download servers yesterday. This release is the first in the 8. For new installations, UEK R6 is enabled and installed as the default kernel on first boot.

This release deprecates the Virtual Machine Manager application virt-manager , among many other changes: " Oracle is pleased to announce the general availability of Oracle Linux 8 Update 1. Notable new features: udica package added - you can use udica to create a tailored security policy, for better control of how a container accesses host system resources, this capability enables you to harden container deployments against security violations; SELinux user-space tools have been updated to release 2.

This will build and install the vbox kernel modules needed. In case the system is set up to autorun a CD it should just open the following autorun dialogue if not select the CD symbol, choose open, then choose Open Autorun Prompt. After having entered your credentials for root access the guest additions will build as seen from the terminal output:.

Note 3 In some systems e. Then we can install the guest additions by opening a terminal on the mounted guest additions. In Lubuntu or Ubuntu Server guests we additionally need to install the GNU C compiler gcc and the make utility in the guest system to be able to compile the guest additions. It is not a prerequisite for Guest Additions but if used it should be installed before we install the Guest Additions.

The Guest Additions. We then may install Guest Additions by typing the following commands:. In case something went wrong with installing the guest additions, or the guest OS can not boot after installing we may have to remove the additions. You could also try the following this worked for me after I had to reinstall the Guest Addtitions after Update Manager killed them. Solution found here:. This found and updated the correct version of the VirtualBox Guest Additions and my system seems to work properly again, and I'm assuming this will also work if Guest Additions are failing to install from the menu item.

One other thing of note. I originally tried to run this under the fish shell - make sure you're using bash i. Within the guest operating system, install the package virtualbox-guest-dkms. For example, using the Terminal application, type sudo apt-get install virtualbox-guest-dkms.

The standard 'virtualbox-guest-additions' package on the. However, Ubuntu has its own dedicated Ubuntu-specific Guest Addon package s Here is the link to a question I asked months ago on this issue Here are the steps I ran which finally worked, but as user named 'pcworld' stated above it may have been the case that only the last command was actually required.

I'll never know, but I want to share in case this helps anyone else:. And don't forget to set your VirtualBox instance to use like MB video ram and Enable 3D Acceleration under the 'Display' settings section for your instance, for good performance.

The virtualbox-guest-additions package has to be installed.