The ovm_vmmessage utility lets you send a message to a running
virtual machine, or to query the value of a message sent from
within a virtual machine to Oracle VM Manager via the Oracle VM API
messaging interface. These values are basic key/value pairs such
as foo=bar
.
New Oracle VM templates released by Oracle will
contain a configuration utility called ovmd
.
This utility is used to perform first-boot installation
configuration either locally from the virtual machine console or
remotely through the messaging interface provided by this utility.
The ovmd
utility also allows the owner of the
virtual machine to send messages back to Oracle VM Manager. For more
information about ovmd
, and the Oracle VM
Guest Additions in general, see Chapter 3, Using the Oracle VM Guest Additions.