Hi there AppWorks fans,

Welcome to a new installment of AppWorks tips.

This guide will help you create a new VM image on the previous installed Oracle Virtual Box. There are some certain settings that are required to do for a proper usable image.

This post is the second part of the series for ‘AppWorks installation in 10 great steps’

This is the list of ingredients we are going to use:

• The already installed ‘Oracle Virtual Box’ software from the previous post

• RHEL ISO file. Downloaded from: developers.redhat.com

  • You are required to create a Red Hat account…You also need it later on for package downloading!
  • I’m using a RHEL 8.7 image with the name rhel-8.7-x86_64-boot.iso
  • Get yourself some information about the lifecycle of RHEL

• OpenText documentation from the support site

Documentation is NOT available in the downloaded AppWorks software package! All documentation for version 24.4 is found here.

• Login with your OpenText account
• Now search whatever you need…It’s a smart search system these days!
• This will be your result to continue your journey (after all the endless filter options…)

• In this result you can also find the PDF ‘AppWorks Platform Supported Environments’ where we can see this information:

Don’t switch a winning team! I stay with RHEL 8.7

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Let get right into it…

Let’s begin by starting up the ‘Oracle VM VirtualBox’ software and create a new machine by hitting <Ctrl>+<n> on your keyboard or from the menu bar selecting ‘Machine’ > ‘New…’

Make sure you are in the ‘Expert Mode’. This can be switched with button on the bottom. Now make these settings:

• Name: OpenText Process Automation {version} RHEL
• Machine Folder: C:\VirtualBox VMs (or another place!)
• ISO image: That’s the one we downloaded.
• Type: Linux
• Version: Red Hat (64-bit)

Open the ‘Hardware’ section for more settings:

• Memory size: 9216 (= 1024 * 9 for 9Gb)
  • Make sure your local machine has enough memory available (I’m running on a laptop with 16Gb memory)
• Processors: Just choose the max. for the green area if this is the only VM currently running.

Finally, the ‘Harddisk’ section:

• Hard disk: Create a virtual hard disk now
• File location: leave as is
• File size: 250Gb
• Hard disk file type: VDI

Hit ‘Finish’ to finalize the creation wizard.

Now it’s time to tweak the image setting. So, select the brand-new image and hit <Ctrl>+<s> on your keyboard or click on the menu bar ‘Machine’ > ‘Settings…’

• General category:

  • This is fine by default.
  • It’s possible to change the clipboard options and drag & drop options on the ‘Advanced’ tab. This can be handy when you want to be more flexible to access your image directly with you copy/paste actions or moving files in/out your image.

• System category:

  • Most of the setting are fine, but we can tweak a bit here
  • On the ‘Motherboard’ tab you will see the memory settings set like you already defined. You can remove the ‘Floppy’ from the ‘Boot Order’ by unchecking it.

• Display category

  • Can be left as is.

• Storage category

  • Should be fine from the initial image creation!

• Audio category

  • Disable the audio.

• Network category

  • It is a good practice to add 2 adapters to a VM. The first one is to make connection from your local machine to the image (host-only). The second one makes internet available on the VM (NAT).
  • ‘Adapter 1’ tab
    • Enable it and attach it to ‘Host-only’ Adapter
  • ‘Adapter 2’ tab
    • Enable it and attach it to ‘NAT’

• Serial Ports category

  • Keep it disabled.

• USB category

  • Can be left as is.

• Shared Folders category

  • Can be left as is.

• User Interface category

  • Can be left as is.

This should be the end-result of all your hard configuration work! 💪

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Give it a big ‘DONE’ for this post as we created a nice VM image we can use for our AppWorks installation. The next step will be to request a try-out license for AppWorks. CU next time on the following post on the series for ‘AppWorks installation in 10 great steps’ and have a great day!