For the Oracle VM templates without Oracle VM 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:
Oracle Linux 6 Add ons (x86_64)
Oracle Linux 6 Add ons (i386)
Enterprise Linux 5 Add ons (x86_64)
Enterprise Linux 5 Add ons (i386)
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
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