About Oracle VM Software Installation
Preparing for Oracle VM Server Installation
Selecting the Installation Method
Creating a Virtual Disk and Setting the Boot Disk
You must disable Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d) in BIOS before you can use Oracle VM. This is necessary because input/output memory management unit (I/O MMU) is not supported in Oracle VM 3.2. You must also disable Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) in BIOS before you can use Oracle VM.
To disable the VT-d and SR-IOV settings in BIOS, perform the following steps:
For example, to reset the server.
From the local server, press the Power button (approximately 1 second) on the front panel of the server to power off the server, then press the Power button again to power on the server.
From the Oracle ILOM web interface, select Host Management > Power Control, then select Reset from the Select Action list box.
From the Oracle ILOM CLI, type: reset /System
The BIOS boot screen appears.
After a few moments, the BIOS Setup Utility appears.
The IO Menu screen appears.
The IO Virtualization menu appears.
The VT-d dialog box appears.
The VT-d option is now disabled.
The SR-IOV dialog box appears.
SR-IOV option is now disabled.
Next Steps