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Oracle® VM

Utilities Guide for Release 3

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E35333-05

March 2014

Abstract

Document generated on: 2014-03-05 (revision: 3776)

Table of Contents

1 Audience
2 Documentation Accessibility
3 Related Documents
4 Command Syntax
5 Conventions

1 Oracle VM Utilities Overview

1.1 Downloading and Installing Oracle VM Utilities

1.1.1 Installing Oracle VM Utilities on Oracle VM Manager
1.1.2 Installing Oracle VM Utilities on Oracle Linux
1.1.3 Directory Structure of Oracle VM Utilities

1.2 Introduction to Oracle VM Utilities

1.3 Introduction to Oracle VM Guest Additions

2 Using the Oracle VM Utilities

2.1 Using Oracle VM Manager Control

2.1.1 Command Line Options and Parameters of ovm_managercontrol
2.1.2 Examples of ovm_managercontrol Usage

2.2 Using Oracle VM Server Control

2.2.1 Command Line Options and Parameters of ovm_servercontrol
2.2.2 Examples of ovm_servercontrol Usage

2.3 Using Oracle VM Virtual Machine Control

2.3.1 Command Line Options and Parameters of ovm_vmcontrol
2.3.2 Examples of ovm_vmcontrol Usage

2.4 Using Oracle VM Retrieve Disk

2.4.1 Command Line Options and Parameters of ovm_vmdisk
2.4.2 Examples of ovm_vmdisk Usage

2.5 Using Oracle VM Virtual Machine Messaging

2.5.1 Command Line Options and Parameters of ovm_vmmessage
2.5.2 Examples of ovm_vmmessage Usage

2.6 Using Oracle VM Pool Control

2.6.1 Command Line Options and Parameters of ovm_poolcontrol
2.6.2 Examples of ovm_poolcontrol Usage

2.7 Using Oracle VM Repository Control

2.7.1 Command Line Options and Parameters of ovm_repocontrol
2.7.2 Examples of ovm_repocontrol Usage

2.8 Using Oracle VM Hostd For Metrics Messaging

2.8.1 Command Line Options
2.8.2 Example Usage
2.8.3 Using vm-dump-metrics To Retrieve Host Statistics Within a VM

3 Using the Oracle VM Guest Additions

3.1 Features of the Oracle VM Guest Additions

3.2 Installing Oracle VM Guest Additions

3.3 Upgrading the Oracle VM Guest Additions

3.4 The Oracle VM Guest Additions Daemon

3.4.1 Configuring the Oracle VM Guest Additions Daemon to Run as a Service
3.4.2 Using the Oracle VM Guest Additions Daemon to Enable First-Boot Configuration
3.4.3 Using the Messaging Channel

3.5 Displaying the Guest IP Address

3.6 The Oracle VM Template Configuration Script and Modules

3.6.1 Overview of the Template Configuration Script
3.6.2 Enabling and Disabling Configuration Modules
3.6.3 Key-Value Pairs Used By Available Configuration Modules
3.6.4 Triggering Configuration Changes
3.6.5 Developing Oracle VM Template Configuration Modules

4 Other Oracle VM Tools

4.1 Oracle VM Administrator Tool

4.1.1 Managing Users with Oracle VM Administrator Tool
4.1.2 Log Rotation Options

4.2 Oracle VM Diagnostic Capture

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