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3.4 Stopping Oracle VM Agent ....................................................................................................... 3-3
Monitoring Oracle VM Agent ................................................................................................... 3-3
3.5
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
Populating the Root File System........................................................................................ 4-8
4.5.2
4.5.3 Configuring the Guest......................................................................................................... 4-9
4.6 Creating a Hardware Virtualized Guest Manually ............................................................ 4-10
Converting a Hardware Virtualized Guest to a Paravirtualized Guest .......................... 4-12
4.7
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
Domain Lifecycle ........................................................................................................................ 5-1
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
Adding a Shared Virtual Disk Using NFS ....................................................................... 6-4
6.1.3
6.2 Migrating a Domain ................................................................................................................... 6-5
7 Managing Oracle VM Server Repositories
7.1 Repository Directory Structure ................................................................................................. 7-1
Oracle VM Server Repositories ................................................................................................. 7-1
7.2
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
Using the P2V Utility with a Kickstart File ...................................................................... 8-5
8.1.2
8.2 Converting a VMware Virtual Machine .................................................................................. 8-6
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