Oracle Audio Technologies E10898-02 manual Creating a Guest, Supported Guest Operating Systems

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Creating a Guest

This Chapter contains information on how to create a guest operating system. You can create paravirtualized guests and hardware virtualized guests using a guest template, or using the command-line tool virt-install. virt-install can be used as an interactive shell, or all parameters can be given at the same time from the command-line. You can enter multiple parameters to the virt-install tool in the format:

virt-install [options]

Appendix A, "Command-Line Tools" lists the virt-install command-line tool parameters.

You can also create guest on Oracle VM Server using Oracle VM Manager. See the Oracle VM Manager User’s Guide for information on creating guests with Oracle VM Manager.

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Supported Guest Operating Systems

Mounting an ISO

Creating a Guest Using a Template

Creating a Guest Using virt-install

Creating a Paravirtualized Guest Manually

Creating a Hardware Virtualized Guest Manually

Converting a Hardware Virtualized Guest to a Paravirtualized Guest

Installing Paravirtual Drivers

4.1 Supported Guest Operating Systems

The guest you create must be one of the following configurations.

Table 4–1 64-bit Hypervisor Supported Guest Operating Systems

			Hardware	Hardware
	Paravirtualized	Paravirtualized	Virtualized	Virtualized
Guest Operating Systems	32-bit	64-bit	32-bit	64-bit
RedHat Enterprise Linux	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
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