Install Oracle Linux 9 and Oracle Database 19c on Windows WSL
Since a few days I’ve a Oracle Database 19c running on my laptop (4 year old i5 processor with 16GB memory) under the Windows Subsystem for Linux with the latest Oracle Linux 9.3. It is working great for testing functionalities. It survives without problem sleep and restart without first shutting down correctly the database.
While there are no snapshot possibility like with Virtualbox, it is possible to export the running image and re-import later.
Below I describe the main steps to quickly install the system.
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