3.1. Installing Oracle VM Guest Additions

For the Oracle VM templates without Guest Additions installed, the following software packages can be downloaded from Oracle Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN) by choosing the proper channel to download and install into the existing Oracle Linux 5 or 6 guest with Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK).

kmod-ovmapi-uek
libovmapi
libovmapi-devel
ovmd
python-simplejson
xenstoreprovider
ovm-template-config
ovm-template-config-authentication
ovm-template-config-datetime
ovm-template-config-firewall
ovm-template-config-network
ovm-template-config-selinux
ovm-template-config-ssh
ovm-template-config-system
ovm-template-config-user

These packages can be downloaded from the following ULN channels:

In addition, the packages are available from Oracle's Public YUM repository.

To install these packages, make sure that your virtual machine has public internet access and is connected to the appropriate ULN channel or YUM repository. Then use the following command syntax in your Oracle Linux guest, separating the package names by spaces:

# yum install libovmapi xenstoreprovider ovmd python-simplejson xenstoreprovider
Caution

When manually installing the downloaded packages, make sure that the kmod-ovmapi-uek version matches the UEK version of the virtual machine:

  • UEK 2.36.32-100 requires kmod-ovmapi-uek-1.0.0-27.100

  • UEK 2.36.32-200 requires kmod-ovmapi-uek-1.0.0-27.200

  • UEK 2.36.32-300 requires kmod-ovmapi-uek-1.0.0-27.300