For installations that do not replace the entire operating system of the target host, such as the installation of Oracle VM Manager, the most common method of accessing the installation media is to perform a loopback mount on the ISO provided. For this method, the ISO image file must be accessible to the target host.
If the target host is an x86-based system running Oracle Linux, run the following command to perform a loopback mount of the ISO image file:
# mount -o loop/tmp/OracleVM-Manager.iso/mnt
Substitute /tmp/OracleVM-Manager.iso
with the full path to the ISO image file. Substitute
/mnt with the path to the directory
on the file system to use as a mount point. From this point
onward, you can access the contents of the ISO image file at the
location of your mount point.
If the target host is a SPARC-based system running Oracle Solaris, run the following command to perform a loopback mount of the ISO image file:
# mount -o ro -F hsfs/var/tmp/OracleVM-Manager.iso/mnt
Substitute
/var/tmp/OracleVM-Manager.iso with
the full path to the ISO image file. Substitute
/mnt with the path to the directory
on the file system to use as a mount point. From this point
onward, you can access the contents of the ISO image file at the
location of your mount point.
If you have trouble mounting the ISO image file on a SPARC system, you may need to manually configure the ISO image file as a loopback device:
# lofiadm -a /var/tmp/OracleVM-Manager.iso
This command outputs the device name you should use, for example
/dev/lofi/1. Use the new loopback device to
perform the mount, for example:
# mount -o ro -F hsfs /dev/lofi/1 /mntWhen you have finished installing, remember to unmount the loopback device and remove it:
# umount /mnt
# lofiadm -d /dev/lofi/1Refer to the lofiadm man page for more details.