Installing Host Drivers (Local Install Method)

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When you install the Oracle Linux OS or Oracle VM hypervisor on the server, the Oracle Virtual Networking host drivers are also installed. However, by default, the host drivers are not loaded into memory, so they are not automatically active after a server boot up. To support vNICs and vHBAs on the Oracle Linux server, you will need to explicitly enable the locally installed Oracle Virtual Networking host drivers.

Note - A PXE installation to local disk/SAN disk for Oracle VM is not supported at this point. You can install Oracle VM through CD image to local disk, then install the Oracle Virtual Networking user space application from the Yum repository or the RPM.

Enabling the host drivers contains the following main tasks:

Install Host Drivers (Yum)
Install Host Drivers (Manually)
Activate the Oracle Virtual Networking Service
Verify That the Server Is Detected by the Oracle Fabric Interconnect