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Oracle® VM
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Preface
Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation
TTY Access to Oracle Support Services
Command Syntax
Conventions
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Why Virtualize?
What is Virtualization?
Introduction to Virtualization
Oracle VM
Xen Technology
Xen Technology
Oracle VM Architecture shows the components of Oracle VM
Oracle VM
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Oracle VM Server
Oracle VM Server
Domains, Guests and Virtual Machines
Hypervisor
Hypervisor
Domains
Management Domain
Hardware Virtualization Vs. Paravirtualization
Creating Virtual Machines
Configuring Oracle VM Server
Configuring Oracle VM Server
Managing Oracle VM Server Repositories
Configuring Oracle VM Agent
Oracle VM Agent Command-Line Tool
Oracle VM Agent
Xmlrpc
Configuring Oracle VM Agent
Stopping Oracle VM Agent
Starting Oracle VM Agent
Monitoring Oracle VM Agent
Deploying Oracle VM Agent
Remotely Starting a Guest with the Oracle VM Agent API
Testing the Oracle VM Agent Connection
Remotely Stopping a Guest with the Oracle VM Agent API
Oracle VM Agent Utilities
Monitoring a Guest with the Oracle VM Agent
Deleting a Guest with the Oracle VM Agent
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Supported Guest Operating Systems
Creating a Guest
-bit Hypervisor Supported Guest Operating Systems
Supported Guest Operating Systems
Creating a Guest Using a Template
Creating a Guest Using a Template
Mounting an ISO
Enabling Registration of Guests with Oracle VM Manager
Creating a Guest Using virt-install
Creating a Guest Using virt-install
Press Enter Following question is displayed
Would you like to enable graphics support yes or no?
Creating the Root File System
Creating a Paravirtualized Guest Manually
Creating a Paravirtualized Guest Manually
Populating the Root File System
Configuring the Guest
Creating a Hardware Virtualized Guest Manually
Creating a Hardware Virtualized Guest Manually
Edit /mnt/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
Use VNCViewer to display the guest
If you see this error message
Restart the guest, using the xm command-line tool
Installing Paravirtual Drivers
Installing Paravirtual Drivers
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Using the xm Command-Line Interface
Domain Monitoring and Administration
Domain Lifecycle
Monitoring Domains
Using the xm Command-Line Interface
Viewing Host Information
Using the xm Command-Line Interface
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Domain Live Migration
Creating a Shared Virtual Disk Using OCFS2 on iSCSI
Creating a Shared Virtual Disk for Live Migration
Delete entries that you do not want to use, for example
Creating a Shared Virtual Disk for Live Migration
Creating a Shared Virtual Disk Using OCFS2 on SAN
Adding a Shared Virtual Disk Using NFS
Migrating a Domain
Migrating a Domain
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Managing Oracle VM Server Repositories
Repository Configuration File
Oracle VM Server Repositories
Repository Mount Options
Removing a Repository
Adding a Repository
Oracle VM Server Repositories
Command-Line Tools
Start
Configure
Stop
Restart
Nname --name=name
Help
RRAM --ram=RAM
UUUID --uuid=UUID
Vnc
Bvalue --bridge=value
Vncport=port
Sdl
Noapic
Os-variant=variant
Arch=arch
Llocation --location=location
Paravirt
Vif-type=type
Xargs --extra-args=args
Destroy domain-id
Console domain-id
Dmesg --clear
Help --long option
List --long --label domain-id
=file --defconfig=file
Log
Migrate domain-id host -l --live -r=MB --resource=MB
Shutdown -a -w domain-id
Restore statefile
Unpause domain-id
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Oracle VM Server Configuration File
Loglevel Critical or Fatal Error Warn or Warning Info Debug
Oracle VM Server Configuration File
Logfile location
Xend-unix-server yes no
Xend-http-server yes no
Xend-tcp-xmlrpc-server yes no
Xend-unix-xmlrpc-server yes no
Xend-relocation-port port
Xend-port port
Xend-address IPAddress
Xend-relocation-address IPAddress
Dom0-min-mem memory
Enable-dump yes no
Dom0-cpus CPUs
External-migration-tool tool
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Configuration File Example
Guest Configuration Files
Configuration File Example
Oracle VM Agent Architecture
Oracle VM Agent Architecture
Oracle VM Agent Deployment
Oracle VM Agent Deployment
Oracle VM Agent Architecture D-3
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Debugging Tools
Troubleshooting
Oracle VM Server Directories
Guest Console Access
Using Dhcp
Oracle VM Server Command-Line Tools
Using Dhcp
Guest Console Access
Cannot Display Graphical Installer When Creating Guests
Cannot Display Graphical Installer When Creating Guests
Hardware Virtualized Guest Console Not Displayed
Wallclock Time Skew Problems
Setting the Guest’s Clock
Mouse Pointer Tracking Problems
Mouse Pointer Tracking Problems
Hardware Virtualized Guest Killed
Hardware Virtualized Guest Windows Installation
Hardware Virtualized Guest Devices Not Working as Expected
Hardware Virtualized Guest Killed
Attaching to a Console with the Grub Boot Loader
Firewall Blocks NFS Access
TAP Disks with Paravirtualized Guests
CD-ROM Image Not Found
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Glossary
Oracle VM Server
Oracle VM Agent
Oracle VM Manager
Paravirtualized machine
Vif
Utility Server
Virtual disk
Virtual Machine VM
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