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Managing Oracle VM Server Repositories 7-1
7Managing Oracle VM Server Repositories
This Chapter contains information on managing Oracle VM Server repositories. It
contains:
■ Oracle VM Server Repositories
7.1 Oracle VM Server Repositories
A repository is used for live migration of guests and for local storage.
A list of the Oracle VM Server repositories is in:
/etc/ovs/repositories
A configuration file for mounting repositories is in:
/etc/ovs/repositories.options
You can add a repository using the ovs-makerepo script, and remove them using the
ovs-offlinerepo -d script.
Repositories are managed by Oracle VM Agent. If you need to manually manage the
repository daemon, you can use following commands:
/etc/init.d/ovsrepositories [start|stop|status|restart|reload]
7.1.1 Repository Configuration File
A list of the Oracle VM Server repositories is in:
/etc/ovs/repositories
The format used in the repository file is:
uuid source
The uuid parameter is the UUID (Universally Unique Identifier) of the repository. The
source parameter is the block device or NFS path to the file system used as a
repository.
7.1.2 Repository Mount Options
You can create an optional repository option file which contains mount options for
storage repositories. The repository option file must be named:
/etc/ovs/repositories.options