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Creating an Installation Tree

4-2

Oracle VM Server User's Guide

* Oracle Enterprise Linux paravirtualized drivers are available on the Oracle VM
Server CD for Release 3 Update 9, and Release 4 Update 4 onwards. The drivers are
also available on the Oracle Enterprise Linux Network (ULN).

The following guest operating systems have been tested and no issues have been
found other than as stated in the Oracle VM documentation.

4.2 Creating an Installation Tree

You cannot create a paravirtualized guest virtual machine from a local hard disk or
CD-ROM using either the virt-install command-line tool, or Oracle VM Manager. You
can, however, create an installation tree, and mount it as an NFS share. or make it
available via HTTP or FTP. For example, to create mount an ISO file and make it
available via NFS:

# mkdir -p /el/EL5-x86

Table 4–1

64-bit CPU Supported Guest Operating Systems

Guest Operating Systems

Paravirtualized
32-bit

Paravirtualized
64-bit

Hardware
Virtualized
32-bit

Hardware
Virtualized
64-bit

RedHat Enterprise Linux
3.x

Yes*

No

Yes

Yes

Oracle Enterprise Linux
Release 4.x

RedHat Enterprise Linux
4.x

Yes*

Yes*

Yes

Yes

Oracle Enterprise Linux
Release 5.x

RedHat Enterprise Linux
5.x

Yes*

Yes*

Yes

Yes

Table 4–2

32-bit CPU Supported Guest Operating Systems

Guest Operating Systems

Paravirtualized 32-bit

Hardware Virtualized 32-bit

RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.x

Yes*

Yes

Oracle Enterprise Linux Release 4.x

RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.x

Yes

Yes

Oracle Enterprise Linux Release 5.x

RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.x

Yes

Yes

Table 4–3

Tested Guest Operating Systems

Guest Operating Systems

Hardware Virtualized 32-bit

Hardware Virtualized 64-bit

Microsoft Windows™ 2000

Yes

Yes

Microsoft Windows™ 2003

Yes

Yes

Microsoft Windows™ XP Pro

Yes

Yes

Microsoft Windows™ Vista

Yes

Yes

Microsoft Windows™ 2008
Service Pack 1

Yes

Yes

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