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Re: SYSTEM tablespace defaulting to dictionary managed and limited extents
Hi,
In Oracle 19c, when you perform a CREATE DATABASE operation without specifying LOCAL, the SYSTEM tablespace is created as dictionary-managed, just as you said. This is documented in the following manual.
Regards,
asahide
VirtualBox 7.2 Released
VirtualBox 7.2.0 (released August 14 2025)
This is a major update. The following new features were added:
- GUI: Moved global and VM tools from hamburger menus to global tools taskbar (vertically on the left) and the VM tools tabs (horizontally above the right hand panel) to make them easier to reach
- Windows/Arm host: Arm virtualization of VMs added, in the unified Windows installer package
- Arm host: Virtualization of Windows 11/Arm VMs
- Linux host: Video decoding acceleration when 3D is enabled
- Windows/Arm guest: Guest additions for new OS type Windows 11/Arm
- macOS Arm host: Experimental 3D acceleration support using DXMT, removing the previous non working solution using DXVK on top of MoltenVK. 3D acceleration is not supported on macOS hosts using Intel CPUs anymore.
- Storage: The NVMe storage controller emulation is now part of the open source base package
In addition, the following items were fixed or added:
- Arm VMs: Note that the saved state of Arm VMs from VirtualBox 7.1 is incompatible with VirtualBox 7.2, so please shut down such VMs in saved state before upgrading to 7.2 (snapshots with associated saved state created with 7.1 will no longer work with 7.2)
- VMM: Improved x86_64 and Arm CPU feature reporting when using Windows Hyper-V as the virtualization engine
- VMM: Added xsave/xrestor instruction handling when using Windows/x86_64 Hyper-V as the virtualization engine, offering the x86_64-v3 instruction set extensions (including AVX and AVX2) on recent CPUs
- VMM: Fixed issue when X86_64-v3 features were not passed to the guest (github:gh-36)
- VMM/HM: Fixed Nested Virtualization feature on Intel CPUs
- GUI: Fixed a bug in clone VM wizard which made impossible to include snapshots in clone result (github:GH-59)
- GUI: Polished Preferences and Settings pages, NLS fixing
- GUI: Improved handling of keyboard LEDs in the Soft Keyboard
- GUI: Added checkbox for making a Shared Folder global to all VMs
- GUI: Removed IO-APIC from Arm VM settings
- Graphics: Avoid assertion when guest tries to use VMSVGA 3D functions when the feature is disabled
- Audio: Fixed crash in rare circumstances (github:gh-72)
- NAT: Multiple fixes and improvements, for example better DNS server handling, saving of the VM settings and generating a boot file name which stays within the length limit
- NAT Network: Use the (almost) same code as for NAT, unifying behavior and features
- NAT: Fixed possible crash in rare circumstances when no nameservers could be detected in the host system
- Storage: Fixed corruption of VMDK images when resizing
- Video Recording: Fixed frame synchronization, a small memory leak and other bugs
- TPM: Fixed save state load failures
- Arm VMs: ACPI now available
- API/Unattended: Added explicit unattended installation support for Oracle Linux 10
- API and VBoxManage: Added functionality to define global Shared Folders for all VMs
- API: Fixed issue when OVF/OVA import resulted in a broken VM on Arm (bug #22370)
- API: Fixed issue when exporting a VM which had an inaccessible disk resulted in crash
- VBoxManage: Document currently unavailable NAT options
- Linux host and guest: Initial support for kernel version 6.16
- Linux/Solaris host: Fixed swapped scan code for Pause and Num Lock keys in the table used when relying on Xkb for translation
- Windows host: Removed release assertion causing crash of VBoxUsbMon driver if unloading fails
- Arm host: vboxwebsrv is now included in the packages
- Linux host and guest: Introduced initial support for kernel 6.17
- Linux guest: Fixed handling of (long optional) vboxvideo kernel module in init script
- Linux guest: Fixed start failure of VBoxClient with kernel from the 2.6 series or older
- Windows/Arm guest: Added WDDM Graphics driver, with 2D and 3D mode
- Windows/Arm guest: Added Shared Folder feature
- Windows Host: Added improvements in Windows drivers installation
- Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when autorun installer was not automatically starting on Additions ISO image insert for Oracle Linux 10 and RHEL 10 guests
- BIOS: Fixed keyboard translation, added and updated several entries and do not report keypresses when scan code and ASCII code are both zero
- BIOS: Fixed error reporting fo single sided floppy disks
- UEFI: Added workaround for Grub bug causing guest OS crashes
- UEFI: Fixed macOS kernel logging over serial port (github:gh-82)
- 3rd Party Tools: Eliminated build time dependency on libIDL and IASL
Re: JAVA JRE download
Depends on the version but I would start here for the latest:
Previous releases can be found here:
Re: Is it possible to only Logically delete old Year end closure Journal after a re-run?
Hi,
it works for us but you need to use GL_YC and to have document sequencing turned on for the GL BU.
Regards,
Jakub
Re: Oracle EBS Windows 11 Certification ETA
Hi, we are successfully using Windows 11. This is my solution. I found that there is a trusted sites area in Windows 11 for when opening a WebADI worksheet, the process “hangs” on the Processing: Create Document screen.
To add *.harvard.edu as a trusted site: Search for Control Panel, open Control Panel > Internet Options > Security tab > click on the Trusted sites icon > click the “Sites” button > Uncheck the box “Require server verification (https:) for all sites in this zone” Then, click in the first box, which reads “Add this Web site to the zone:” > Type *.harvard.edu > Click Add, The line should drop from the top box to the bottom box. > Recheck the box “Require server verification (https:) for all sites in this zone” > Click Close > Click OK.
Further info for Windows 11 (or it could just be Excel updates)...I also found that Excel notes a Security Risk Microsoft has blocked macros from running because the source of this file is untrusted. The latest version of Microsoft (MS) Office has added security. It is, therefore, necessary to add the download / working path to trusted locations and save the webadi files there before opening.
To implement the solution, please follow the steps below : 1) Open any blank MS Excel worksheet 2) Navigate to File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center settings > Trusted locations 3) Click on "Add locations" button and add the appropriate path where the WebADI document is downloaded / saved. Please note at times ADI has issues with uploading journals from share drives because of the long path names. If your ADI is on a share drive, you may want to try adding your desktop to upload from instead. 4) Click "Ok" 5) Re-test the issue by downloading new WebADI document
Alternatively, users can unblock a single document at a time. The user will be able to go to the Properties dialog for the file and select Unblock which will allow the macros to run, as long as no policy or Trust Center setting is blocking.
All the best,
Sharon_O
Re: OVMAPI_4024E Cannot take ownership of server
Thank you @JanuszU - we had the same issue, and your instructions allowed us to finally resolve after days of working with support and a lot of trial and error. We didn't originally remove the key file and reboot - didn't have luck until we did those last two steps. Thank you!!!!!
TLS orapki, openssl and SAN with EBS 12.2
I was following the note to install TLS 1.2 for EBS 12,2
I have a primary and standby., so I want to use the same certificates across both servers.
That means that I need to have the appropriate Subject Alternate Names.
Due to the vagaries of the certificating system that we use I need the SAN to be in the csr
This doesn't seem possible with orapki from 11.1.1.9.
So the question is do I need to use orapki to create the wallets etc or can I use openssl where I can specify the -ext parameter. Is this a supported method ?
Thanks
Dominic
djwest
Re: Machine Name table
Hi
The data for this page comes from the business view V98611 which in turn comes from F98611
Are you trying the change the Database server. If yes it would be better to follow the below document
E1: DB: How To Change Out A Database Server? (Doc ID 1944173.1)
Regards,
Prabhu