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Creating a Guest 4-1

4Creating 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.

This Chapter contains:

■ 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

Guest Operating Systems

Paravirtualized

32-bit

Paravirtualized

64-bit

Hardware

Virtualized

32-bit

Hardware

Virtualized

64-bit

RedHat Enterprise Linux

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