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Audience...................................................................................................................................................... vii
Documentation Accessibility .................................................................................................................... vii
Command Syntax ......................................................................................................................................
Related Documents ...................................................................................................................................
Conventions ................................................................................................................................................. ix
New Features in Release 2.1.5 ................................................................................................................... xi
New Features in Release 2.1.2 ................................................................................................................... xi
New Features in Release 2.1.1 .................................................................................................................. xii
1.1
What is Virtualization?............................................................................................................... 1-1
1.2
Why Virtualize?........................................................................................................................... 1-1
Xen™ Technology....................................................................................................................... 1-2
1.3
1.4
Oracle VM .................................................................................................................................... 1-2
2.1
Oracle VM Server........................................................................................................................ 2-1
Hypervisor ................................................................................................................................... 2-2
2.2
2.3
Domains, Guests and Virtual Machines .................................................................................. 2-2
2.4
Management Domain................................................................................................................. 2-3
2.5
Domains ....................................................................................................................................... 2-3
Paravirtualization, Hardware Virtualization, and Binary Translation ............................... 2-3
2.6
2.7
Creating Virtual Machines......................................................................................................... 2-3
2.8
Managing Domains .................................................................................................................... 2-3
Configuring Oracle VM Server ................................................................................................. 2-4
2.9
2.10
Managing Oracle VM Server Repositories .............................................................................. 2-4
3.1
Oracle VM Agent Command-Line Tool .................................................................................. 3-1
Configuring Oracle VM Agent.................................................................................................. 3-1
3.2
3.3
Starting Oracle VM Agent ......................................................................................................... 3-2
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