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Release 2.1

# Oracle VM Release 2.1 Documentation

## Welcome

Oracle VM is a platform that provides a fully equipped environment for better leveraging the benefits of virtualization technology. Oracle VM enables you to deploy operating systems and application software within a supported virtualization environment. The components of Oracle VM are:

Oracle VM Manager
  Provides the user interface, which is a standard ADF (Application Development Framework) web application, to manage Oracle VM Servers. Manages virtual machine lifecycle, including creating virtual machines from installation media or from a virtual machine template, deleting, powering off, uploading, deployment and live migration of virtual machines. Manages resources, including ISO files, virtual machine templates and sharable hard disks.
Oracle VM Server
  A self-contained virtualization environment designed to provide a lightweight, secure, server-based platform for running virtual machines. Oracle VM Server is based upon an updated version of the underlying Xen hypervisor technology, and includes Oracle VM Agent.

## Documentation

- Oracle VM Quick Start Guide HTML PDF
- Oracle VM Server Release Notes HTML PDF
- Oracle VM Manager Release Notes HTML PDF
- Oracle VM Manager Installation Guide HTML PDF
- Oracle VM Server Installation Guide HTML PDF
- Oracle VM Windows Paravirtual Drivers Installation Guide
  for Microsoft Windows HTML PDF
- Oracle VM Template Builder Installation and User's Guide HTML PDF
- Oracle VM Server User's Guide HTML PDF
- Oracle VM Manager User's Guide HTML PDF
- Virtualization Management with Oracle Enterprise Manager HTML PDF
- Oracle VM Manager Web Services API Reference HTML PDF