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3.7.3 Remotely Stopping a Guest with the Oracle VM Agent API ........................................ 3-5
3.8 Oracle VM Agent Utilities ......................................................................................................... 3-5
3.8.1 Monitoring a Guest with the Oracle VM Agent.............................................................. 3-5
3.8.2 Deleting a Guest with the Oracle VM Agent................................................................... 3-5
4 Creating a Guest
4.1 Supported Guest Operating Systems....................................................................................... 4-1
4.2 Mounting an ISO......................................................................................................................... 4-3
4.3 Enabling Registration of Guests with Oracle VM Manager ................................................. 4-3
4.4 Creating a Guest Using a Template.......................................................................................... 4-3
4.5 Creating a Guest Using virt-install........................................................................................... 4-4
4.6 Creating a Paravirtualized Guest Manually ........................................................................... 4-7
4.6.1 Creating the Root File System............................................................................................ 4-7
4.6.2 Populating the Root File System........................................................................................ 4-8
4.6.3 Configuring the Guest......................................................................................................... 4-8
4.7 Creating a Hardware Virtualized Guest Manually ............................................................... 4-9
4.8 Converting a Hardware Virtualized Guest to a Paravirtualized Guest .......................... 4-11
4.9 Creating a Paravirtual Guest with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.8 or 3.9.......................... 4-14
4.10 Installing Paravirtual Drivers................................................................................................. 4-14
5 Domain Monitoring and Administration
5.1 Domain Lifecycle ........................................................................................................................ 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
6.1.3 Adding a Shared Virtual Disk Using NFS ....................................................................... 6-4
6.2 Migrating a Domain ................................................................................................................... 6-5
7 Managing Oracle VM Server Repositories
7.1 Oracle VM Server Repositories................................................................................................. 7-1
7.1.1 Repository Configuration File ........................................................................................... 7-1
7.1.2 Repository Mount Options................................................................................................. 7-1
7.1.3 Adding a Repository ........................................................................................................... 7-2
7.1.4 Removing a Repository....................................................................................................... 7-2
A Command-Line Tools
ovs-agent ..................................................................................................................................... A-2
virt-install.................................................................................................................................... A-3
xm................................................................................................................................................. A-7