Installing Oracle VirtualBox Vm

We are going to use Oracle VM 4.1.16 (the current release)
running under Windows 7 x64 ( 64bit Enterprise edition).
VM 4.1.16 has support for usb devices built-in, so you
probably don't need to add the extensions package
at this time.

Note that when we started the training with the intro SQL
course we had VirtualBox 4.1.14, but there have
been updates for us since that time.


There are several approaches to getting VirtualBox.
Pick your favourite.


For more info on how to setup your new virtual machine
see the online docs at
https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/UserManual.html
 and in particular at:
http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch01.html#gui-createvm

A couple of items of note here:
1a)
You'll need to link the virtual machine to the local disk
to setup a dedicated cache for the virtual machine and provide
some hooks to load an OS.


1b)
  You'll need an OS to load, so have Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.5 .iso ready FIRST.
   Either burn to a disk or have it ready to load on the local disk.  VirtualBox is
   smart enough to read an .iso file directly.  
  No OS means VirtualBox will startup a machine that does nothing and just waits to boot.
  Which would be useless to you, in every way.

Download a fresh version of the VirtualBox
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/virtualbox/downloads/index.html
Just select your host OS, and install the downloaded binaries.


2)
If you are a glutton for punishment, you could download the source code
and build your own VirtualBox environment. 

See otn for more info on this option.