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This article demonstrates steps for enabling a windows host shared folder to oracle solaris 11 guest operating system in a virtualbox environment. Before reading further please make sure that "guest additions" are already Installed and configured on a guest OS. 1) Create and configure shared folder for a virtual machine: Create any directory which you want to share at your desired location. I've used "E:\solshare"  >> Navigate to devices > shared folders  >> click on icon to add a new shared folder to guest OS >>  click on "Folder Path" and add the required folder for enabling sharing. >> check box - If you want to make this shared as permanent and auto-mount enabled. It will be persistent on reboots.  >> Verify the configuration of shared folder 2) Mount share folder on guest OS (solaris11): >> Verify the existing mount-points root@soltest1:~# df -h

Question regarding scheduling of starting/stopping EBS R12.2 Application services  has been asked several times on forums. So i decided to write a quick post for demonstrating it. In Oracle EBS there are consolidated scripts for starting  and stopping of multiple Application services. " adstrtal.sh " is used for starting all application services and " adstpall.sh " is used for stopping of other services. These script will call other scripts Internally to perform start/stop operation. Prior to EBS R12.2  you only need apps username and password to run this script. In EBS R12.2 you need a additional password parameter for weblogic admin server to start/stop of  EBS application services. In EBS 11i/R12.1 script usage: adstrtal.sh apps/apps  - Stop services adstpall.sh apps/apps - Start services In EBS R12.2 additional weblogic admin password should be provided: - Similarly for stopping of services also you need to provide the we