[ORACLE] How to create a test environment with Oracle 23ai running on MacBook Pro M3 Pro.

Hello everyone.

How are you going?

I've finally surrendered to the Macbook's allure for work. 

And my first challange was to run the Oracle 23ai in my Mac.

So, let's get started!

First, we need to install the homebrew.

/bin/bash -c 

"$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)" 

We don't have an installer to Oracle 23ai for the Mac M3. 

So, I'm use Colima + Docker + QEMU to emulate x86_64 arch and run the Oracle 23ai. 

Colima is an open source container runtime for macOS with minimal configuration. In addition,

QEMU was an open source software virtualization tool that performs hardware emulation. 

Now, we need to install Docker, Docker-compose, Colima and reinstall QEMU.

   

   brew update

   brew install docker

   brew install docker-compose

 

   brew install colima

   brew reinstall qemu

* Yes, I forgot to take the screenshots 

We are to install Rosetta, as well.

   oftwareupdate --install-rosetta

According Apple, "Rosetta is not an app that you open or interact with. Rosetta works

automatically in the background whenever you use an app that was built only for Mac

computers with an Intel processor. It translates the app for use with Apple silicon."

Check the colima status.

   colima help

Stop and delete the old profile.

   colima stop

   colima delete

And start Colima with the parameters bellow:

   colima start --cpu 4 --memory 10 --arch x86_64 --vm-type vz --vz-rosetta

   Where:

      --vm-type=vz             ==> Virtual machine type.

      --vz-rosetta                ==> Enable Rosetta for amd64 emulation.

      --mount-type=virtiofs ==> Volume Mount Driver for vz.

      --arch x86_64            ==> Architecture (x86_64).

   colima status

* The default VM created by Colima has 2 CPUs, 60GB storage and 2GB memory runing

Ubuntu.

Access the Colima console:

   colima ssh

   # Check if Colima is using the new profile

   docker context ls

Finally, create a docker container running Oracle 23ai:

 docker run -d -it --name Orcl23ai /

    -p 1527:1521 /

    -p 5507:5500 /

    -p 8087:8080 /

    -p 8447:8443 

    -e ORACLE_PWD=E 

    container-registry.oracle.com/database/free:latest

Check the container and database.

   docker ps --format "table {{.ID}}\t{{.Status}}\t{{.Names}}\t{{.Ports}}"

   docker exec -it Orcl23ai /bin/bash

And thats it. As simple as that.

If you can watch this installation, you can see these videos from my friend Eduardo Claro:

Installing Colima and Docker in Apple Silicon ARM based machines

You can also consult the documentation here - it's for Oracle Autonomous Database Free Container Image, but the process is the same.

I hope it helps you.

Regards

Mario