Oracle Audio Technologies E10898-02 User Manuals

Table of Contents

• Contents

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• Preface

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  • Audience

    7
  • Documentation Accessibility

    7
  • Command Syntax

    8
  • Related Documents

    8
  • Conventions

    9
• 1 Introduction to Virtualization

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  • 1.1 What is Virtualization?

    11
  • 1.2 Why Virtualize?

    11
  • 1.3 Xen™ Technology

    12
  • 1.4 Oracle VM

    12
• 2 Oracle VM Server

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  • 2.1 Oracle VM Server

    15
  • 2.2 Hypervisor

    16
  • 2.3 Domains, Guests and Virtual Machines

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  • 2.4 Management Domain

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  • 2.5 Domains

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  • 2.6 Hardware Virtualization Vs. Paravirtualization

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  • 2.7 Creating Virtual Machines

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  • 2.8 Managing Domains

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  • 2.9 Configuring Oracle VM Server

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  • 2.10 Managing Oracle VM Server Repositories

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• 3 Oracle VM Agent

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  • 3.1 Oracle VM Agent Command-Line Tool

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  • 3.2 Configuring Oracle VM Agent

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  • 3.3 Starting Oracle VM Agent

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  • 3.4 Stopping Oracle VM Agent

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  • 3.5 Monitoring Oracle VM Agent

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  • 3.6 Deploying Oracle VM Agent

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  • 3.7 Oracle VM Agent API

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    • 3.7.1 Testing the Oracle VM Agent Connection

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    • 3.7.2 Remotely Starting a Guest with the Oracle VM Agent API

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    • 3.7.3 Remotely Stopping a Guest with the Oracle VM Agent API

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  • 3.8 Oracle VM Agent Utilities

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    • 3.8.1 Monitoring a Guest with the Oracle VM Agent

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    • 3.8.2 Deleting a Guest with the Oracle VM Agent

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• 4 Creating a Guest

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  • 4.1 Supported Guest Operating Systems

    25
  • 4.2 Mounting an ISO

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  • 4.3 Enabling Registration of Guests with Oracle VM Manager

    27
  • 4.4 Creating a Guest Using a Template

    27
  • 4.5 Creating a Guest Using virt-install

    28
  • 4.6 Creating a Paravirtualized Guest Manually

    31
    • 4.6.1 Creating the Root File System

      31
    • 4.6.2 Populating the Root File System

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    • 4.6.3 Configuring the Guest

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  • 4.7 Creating a Hardware Virtualized Guest Manually

    33
  • 4.8 Converting a Hardware Virtualized Guest to a Paravirtualized Guest

    35
  • 4.9 Creating a Paravirtual Guest with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.8 or 3.9

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  • 4.10 Installing Paravirtual Drivers

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• 5 Domain Monitoring and Administration

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  • 5.1 Domain Lifecycle

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  • 5.2 Using the xm Command-Line Interface

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    • 5.2.1 Monitoring Domains

      42
    • 5.2.2 Viewing Host Information

      42
• 6 Domain Live Migration

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  • 6.1 Creating a Shared Virtual Disk for Live Migration

    45
    • 6.1.1 Creating a Shared Virtual Disk Using OCFS2 on iSCSI

      45
    • 6.1.2 Creating a Shared Virtual Disk Using OCFS2 on SAN

      47
    • 6.1.3 Adding a Shared Virtual Disk Using NFS

      48
  • 6.2 Migrating a Domain

    49
• 7 Managing Oracle VM Server Repositories

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  • 7.1 Oracle VM Server Repositories

    51
    • 7.1.1 Repository Configuration File

      51
    • 7.1.2 Repository Mount Options

      51
    • 7.1.3 Adding a Repository

      52
    • 7.1.4 Removing a Repository

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• A A Command-Line Tools

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  • ovs-agent

    54
  • virt-install

    55
  • xm

    59
• B Oracle VM Server Configuration File

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  • Oracle VM Server Configuration File

    64
• C Guest Configuration Files

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  • C.1 Configuration File Example 1

    69
  • C.2 Configuration File Example 2

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• D Oracle VM Agent Architecture

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  • D.1 Oracle VM Agent Architecture

    71
  • D.2 Oracle VM Agent Deployment

    72
• E Troubleshooting

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  • E.1 Debugging Tools

    75
    • E.1.1 Oracle VM Server Directories

      75
    • E.1.2 Oracle VM Server Log Files

      76
    • E.1.3 Oracle VM Server Command-Line Tools

      76
  • E.2 Using DHCP

    76
  • E.3 Guest Console Access

    76
  • E.4 Cannot Display Graphical Installer When Creating Guests

    78
  • E.5 Hardware Virtualized Guest Console Not Displayed

    78
  • E.6 Setting the Guest’s Clock

    79
  • E.7 Wallclock Time Skew Problems

    79
  • E.8 Mouse Pointer Tracking Problems

    79
  • E.9 Hardware Virtualized Guest Killed

    80
  • E.10 Hardware Virtualized Guest Devices Not Working as Expected

    80
  • E.11 Hardware Virtualized Guest Windows Installation

    80
  • E.12 TAP Disks with Paravirtualized Guests

    81
  • E.13 CD-ROM Image Not Found

    81
  • E.14 Firewall Blocks NFS Access

    81
  • E.15 Migrating Domains

    81
  • E.16 Attaching to a Console with the Grub Boot Loader

    81
• Glossary

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• Index

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  • A

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  • C

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  • D

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  • E

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  • F

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  • G

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  • H

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  • I

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  • L

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  • M

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  • N

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  • O

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  • P

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  • Q

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  • R

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  • S

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  • T

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  • U

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  • V

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  • W

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  • X

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