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3.4 Stopping Oracle VM Agent ....................................................................................................... 3-3
3.5 Monitoring Oracle VM Agent................................................................................................... 3-3
4 Creating a Guest Virtual Machine
4.1 Supported Guest Operating Systems....................................................................................... 4-1
4.2 Creating an Installation Tree..................................................................................................... 4-2
4.3 Creating a Guest Using a Template.......................................................................................... 4-3
4.4 Creating a Guest Using virt-install........................................................................................... 4-4
4.5 Creating a Paravirtualized Guest Manually ........................................................................... 4-7
4.5.1 Creating the Root File System............................................................................................ 4-7
4.5.2 Populating the Root File System........................................................................................ 4-8
4.5.3 Configuring the Guest......................................................................................................... 4-9
4.6 Creating a Hardware Virtualized Guest Manually ............................................................ 4-10
4.7 Converting a Hardware Virtualized Guest to a Paravirtualized Guest .......................... 4-12
4.8 Creating a Paravirtual Guest with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.8 or 3.9.......................... 4-14
4.9 Installing Paravirtual Drivers................................................................................................. 4-14
5 Domain Monitoring and Administration
5.1 Domain Lifecycle ........................................................................................................................ 5-1
5.2 Using the xm Command-Line Interface .................................................................................. 5-1
5.2.1 Monitoring Domains........................................................................................................... 5-2
5.2.2 Viewing Host Information ................................................................................................. 5-2
6 Domain Live Migration
6.1 Creating a Shared Virtual Disk for Live Migration ............................................................... 6-1
6.1.1 Creating a Shared Virtual Disk Using OCFS2 on iSCSI................................................. 6-1
6.1.2 Creating a Shared Virtual Disk Using OCFS2 on SAN.................................................. 6-3
6.1.3 Adding a Shared Virtual Disk Using NFS ....................................................................... 6-4
6.2 Migrating a Domain ................................................................................................................... 6-5
7 Managing Oracle VM Server Repositories
7.1 Repository Directory Structure................................................................................................. 7-1
7.2 Oracle VM Server Repositories................................................................................................. 7-1
7.3 Repository Configuration File................................................................................................... 7-2
7.4 Repository Mount Options........................................................................................................ 7-2
7.5 Adding a Repository .................................................................................................................. 7-2
7.6 Removing a Repository.............................................................................................................. 7-3
8 Converting Hosts and VMware Virtual Machines
8.1 Converting a Linux or Windows Host..................................................................................... 8-1
8.1.1 Using the P2V Utility Interactively ................................................................................... 8-2
8.1.2 Using the P2V Utility with a Kickstart File...................................................................... 8-5
8.2 Converting a VMware Virtual Machine.................................................................................. 8-6

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Oracle VM Specifications

General IconGeneral
Live MigrationYes
DeveloperOracle Corporation
Storage SupportNFS, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, Local Storage
CategoryServer
Host OS SupportOracle Linux, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux
Guest OS SupportOracle Linux, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux, Windows, Solaris
ManagementOracle VM Manager
High AvailabilityYes
Network SupportVLAN

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