Document Outline

• Contents
• Preface
  • Audience
  • Documentation Accessibility
  • Command Syntax
  • Related Documents
  • Conventions
• What’s New in Oracle VM Server?
  • 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 a Shared Virtual Disk for Live Migration
    • 6.1.1 Creating a Shared Virtual Disk Using OCFS2 on iSCSI
    • 6.1.2 Creating a Shared Virtual Disk Using OCFS2 on SAN
    • 6.1.3 Adding a Shared Virtual Disk Using NFS
  • 6.2 Migrating a Domain
• 7 Managing Oracle VM Server Repositories
  • 7.1 Repository Directory Structure
  • 7.2 Oracle VM Server Repositories
  • 7.3 Repository Configuration File
  • 7.4 Repository Mount Options
  • 7.5 Adding a Repository
  • 7.6 Removing a Repository
• 8 Converting Hosts and VMware Virtual Machines
  • 8.1 Converting a Linux or Windows Host
    • 8.1.1 Using the P2V Utility Interactively
    • 8.1.2 Using the P2V Utility with a Kickstart File
  • 8.2 Converting a VMware Virtual Machine
• 9 High Availability
  • 9.1 High Availability (HA)
  • 9.2 Creating a Shared Virtual Disk for HA
    • 9.2.1 Creating a Shared Virtual Disk Using OCFS2 on iSCSI
    • 9.2.2 Creating a Shared Virtual Disk Using OCFS2 on SAN
    • 9.2.3 Adding a Shared Virtual Disk Using NFS
  • 9.3 Creating HA Clusters
    • 9.3.1 Creating an NFS Cluster for HA
    • 9.3.2 Creating an OCFS2 Cluster for HA
  • 9.4 Enabling HA
• A 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 Configuration File Example 1
  • C.4 Configuration File Example 2
• 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 Hardware Virtualized Guest Windows Installation
  • E.12 CD-ROM Image Not Found
  • E.13 Firewall Blocks NFS Access
  • E.14 Migrating Domains
  • E.15 Attaching to a Console with the Grub Boot Loader
• Glossary
• Index
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