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The remainder of this how-to assumes that you wish to run a test DSpace instance in the virtual machine. If you prefer to run DSpace on the host machine instead, you could instead set up port forwarding for the Virtualbox appliance and use only the database in the virtual machine. In that case, skip the rest of this how-to.

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I also disabled the mail server in ~/dspace-src/dspace/config/dspace.cfg.

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It may not be readily apparent from the example config lines above, but the SID used by the Oracle VirtualBox image is "orcl".

Install Tomcat

Tomcat isn't installed on the virtual machine. Download the binary distribution from http://tomcat.apache.org/; I used Tomcat 6 and installed it into ~/software/tomcat by unpacking the downloaded tarball and symlinking the directory. You will also need to copy the ojdbc6.jar file that you downloaded in the previous step into ~/software/tomcat/lib.

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