Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Command Syntax
• Related Documents
• Conventions

What's New in Oracle VM Server?

• New Features in Release 2.2.0
• New Features in Release 2.1.5
• New Features in Release 2.1.2
• New Features in Release 2.1.1

1 Introduction to Virtualization

• 1.1 What is Virtualization?
• 1.2 Why Virtualize?
• 1.3 Xen™ Technology
• 1.4 Oracle VM

2 Oracle VM Server

• 2.1 Oracle VM Server
• 2.2 Hypervisor
• 2.3 Domains, Guests and Virtual Machines
• 2.4 Management Domain
• 2.5 Domains
• 2.6 Paravirtualization, Hardware Virtualization, and Binary Translation
• 2.7 Creating Virtual Machines
• 2.8 Managing Domains
• 2.9 Configuring Oracle VM Server
• 2.10 Managing Oracle VM Server Repositories

3 Oracle VM Agent

• 3.1 Oracle VM Agent Command-Line Tool
• 3.2 Configuring Oracle VM Agent
• 3.3 Starting Oracle VM Agent
• 3.4 Stopping Oracle VM Agent
• 3.5 Monitoring Oracle VM Agent

4 Creating a Guest Virtual Machine

• 4.1 Supported Guest Operating Systems
• 4.2 Creating an Installation Tree
• 4.3 Creating a Guest Using a Template
• 4.4 Creating a Guest Using virt-install
• 4.5 Creating a Paravirtualized Guest Manually
  • 4.5.1 Creating the Root File System
  • 4.5.2 Populating the Root File System
  • 4.5.3 Configuring the Guest
• 4.6 Creating a Hardware Virtualized Guest Manually
• 4.7 Converting a Hardware Virtualized Guest to a Paravirtualized Guest
• 4.8 Creating a Paravirtual Guest with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.8 or 3.9
• 4.9 Installing Paravirtual Drivers

5 Domain Monitoring and Administration

• 5.1 Domain Lifecycle
• 5.2 Using the xm Command-Line Interface
  • 5.2.1 Monitoring Domains
  • 5.2.2 Viewing Host Information

6 Domain Live Migration

• 6.1 Creating Shared Storage
• 6.2 Migrating a Domain

7 High Availability

• 7.1 High Availability (HA)
• 7.2 Creating Shared Storage
• 7.3 Enabling HA

8 Preparing External Storage and Storage Repositories

• 8.1 Preparing External Storage
  • 8.1.1 Preparing External Storage Using OCFS2 on iSCSI
  • 8.1.2 Preparing External Storage Using OCFS2 on SAN
  • 8.1.3 Preparing External Storage Using NFS
• 8.2 Preparing a Storage Repository

9 Managing Storage Repositories

• 9.1 Storage Repository Directory Structure
• 9.2 Managing Storage Repositories
  • 9.2.1 Listing the Storage Repositories
  • 9.2.2 Adding a Storage Repository
  • 9.2.3 Deleting a Storage Repository
  • 9.2.4 Initializing the Storage Repositories
  • 9.2.5 Setting the Cluster Root

10 Converting Hosts and Non-Oracle VM Virtual Machines

• 10.1 Converting a Linux or Windows Host
  • 10.1.1 Using the P2V Utility Interactively
  • 10.1.2 Using the P2V Utility with a Kickstart File
• 10.2 Converting a Non-Oracle VM Virtual Machine

A Command-Line Tools

• ovs-agent
• virt-install
• xm
• P2V

B Oracle VM Server Configuration File

• Oracle VM Server Configuration File

C Guest Configuration

• C.1 e100 And e1000 Network Device Emulators
• C.2 Quality of Service (QoS)
  • C.2.1 Setting Disk Priority
  • C.2.2 Setting Inbound Network Traffic Priority
  • C.2.3 Setting Outbound Network Traffic Priority
• C.3 Virtual CPU Configuration File Parameters
• C.4 Simple Configuration File Example
• C.5 Complex Configuration File Example
• C.6 Virtual Iron Migration (VHD) Configuration File Example

D Oracle VM Agent Architecture

• D.1 Oracle VM Agent Architecture
• D.2 Oracle VM Agent Deployment

E Troubleshooting

• E.1 Debugging Tools
  • E.1.1 Oracle VM Server Directories
  • E.1.2 Oracle VM Server Log Files
  • E.1.3 Oracle VM Server Command-Line Tools
• E.2 Using DHCP
• E.3 Guest Console Access
• E.4 Cannot Display Graphical Installer When Creating Guests
• E.5 Hardware Virtualized Guest Console Not Displayed
• E.6 Setting the Guest's Clock
• E.7 Wallclock Time Skew Problems
• E.8 Mouse Pointer Tracking Problems
• E.9 Hardware Virtualized Guest Stops
• E.10 Hardware Virtualized Guest Devices Not Working as Expected
• E.11 CD-ROM Image Not Found
• E.12 Firewall Blocks NFS Access
• E.13 Migrating Domains
• E.14 Attaching to a Console with the Grub Boot Loader

Glossary

Index