If you don’t have the luxury of having a server readily available but you want to do some research and development or training on Oracle, then Oracle’s VirtualBox is a perfect solution.

Prerequisites

To be able to use VirtualBox, you need to disable Hyper-V as it blocks all other Hyper Visors from calling VT hardware.  See my post blog on how to do this:
Disabling Microsoft’s Hyper-V to use Oracle’s VirtualBox

Download

You can download the latest VirtualBox from:
https://www.virtualbox.org/
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

At the time of writing this blog, the latest is:
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.1.28/VirtualBox-5.1.28-117968-Win.exe

Install VirtualBox

To install, launch the VirtualBox executable i.e. VirtualBox-5.1.28-117968-Win.exe with a user with admin rights:

Click ‘Next‘.

Click ‘Next‘.

Change options as you wish, otherwise click ‘Next‘.

Accept the warning and click ‘Yes‘.

Click ‘Install‘.

You will see the progress, wait until you see the following:

Click ‘Install‘.

Once finished, click ‘Finish‘ and VirtualBox will load:

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Thanks

Zed DBA (Zahid Anwar)