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Oracle VM

Oracle VM is free server virtualization software from Oracle that supports Oracle and non-Oracle applications. Oracle VM offers scalable, low-cost server virtualization. Both Linux and Windows guests are supported. (See FAQ.)

Consisting of Xen's open source server software and an integrated Web browser-based management console, Oracle VM provides an easy-to-use graphical interface for creating and managing virtual server pools, running on x86 and x86-64-based systems, across an enterprise.

Users can create and manage Virtual Machines (VMs) that exist on the same physical server but behave like independent physical servers. Each virtual machine created with Oracle VM has its own virtual CPUs, network interfaces, storage and operating system. With Oracle VM, users have an easy-to-use browser-based tool for creating, cloning, sharing, configuring, booting and migrating VMs.

Key Oracle products including Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware, and Oracle Applications are now officially supported when running in Oracle VM-based environments. Customers who obtain paid support for Oracle VM receive access to patches, fixes, and updates via Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN) and 24x7 global support.

References and Resources


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Downloadable Oracle / Xen VM ParaVirtualised guests


Downloadable Oracle / Xen VM HardwareVirtualised guests


Hints and HowTos

  • How to use the VNC plugin for Firefox on Ubuntu, OTN forum post.
    (The VNC plugin is used to show the Oracle VM console in Oracle VM manager)
  • Oracle VM Server use case: multiple networks, multipathed SAN storage: for situations where multiple non-virtualized machines are being consolidated to a set of Oracle VM server systems using highly available centralized storage.
  • TO make an ISO from your CD/DVD on Linux (aka your VM Master), insert the media into the CD/DVD drive and use the command: dd if=/dev/hdc of=dvd.iso. This creates an iso image from your corporate Windows or Linux image that you can load into /OVS/iso_image for a bootable image.




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alison.holloway Please use the OTN discussion forum for Oracle VM questions 2 Mar 14 2008, 6:41 PM EDT by hbergh
alison.holloway
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Although there is a discussion forum as part of this wiki, and you're free to post questions here, the Oracle VM product team actively monitor the Oracle discussion forum, so you may find your answers are answered in a more timely fashion there.

http://forums.oracle.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=482

Happy Oracle VMing.

Alison
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ramateki Error: Boot loader didn't return any data! after installing Hypervisor 0 Mar 11 2008, 9:03 PM EDT by ramateki
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After installing the below patches, i am not able to start guest .. i get "Error: Boot loader didn't return any data!"

Hypervisor patch
Please follow instructions in readme to install
xen-3.1.1-0.0.36.el5.i386.rpm
xen-64-3.1.1-0.0.36.el5.noarch.rpm
xen-tools-3.1.1-0.0.36.el5.i386.rpm
xen-devel-3.1.1-0.0.36.el5.i386.rpm
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echo_dba@yahoo.com vm.dsks 3 Feb 22 2008, 5:00 PM EST by pshuff
Thread started: Jan 14 2008, 11:43 PM EST  Watch
Hi team,
is this possible to create multiple Linux virtual machines on the USB disk? My laptop has the limited disk space for the current windows OS, so I would like to attach a single 500 gb drive "through USB port", which will be partitioned into 100 gb each (5 partitions), and make five virtual machines installing the Linux OS into "the partitions on the USB attached disk." My intention is I would like to use my laptop's cpu, memory and network (not disk) for the Linux virtual machines only when I plug in the USB disk into the laptop. I like to operate just a Window virtual machine on my laptop while I don't plug-in the USB drive. Not sure if it's possible.
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slap Oracle VM Shared Virtual Disk 0 Feb 8 2008, 11:12 AM EST by slap
slap
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I created a Shared Virtual Disk ressource using the Manager, and assigned it to a VM in the tab 'Virtual Disk'.
When I connect to that VM in console mode using VNC I can't see this Virtual Disk.

is there any command lines to mount that Shared Virtual Drive ?

thanks

/Stéphane.
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RameyKe Mouse Issues in VNC 2 Feb 5 2008, 12:46 AM EST by torisugari
Thread started: Jan 21 2008, 11:54 AM EST  Watch
I installed Server and Manager without a hitch. Installed an HVM Redhat ES 4 without a hitch. However, after rebooting my VM, I have no mouse control. It goes beyond the mouse tracking issue in VNC, but the mouse cursor stays in the middle of the screen no matter what I do. I have tried accessing via another linux box, a windows box and from the physical box that houses my VM Manager.

Any ideas?
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