Oracle VM

One of the cool things with Oracle VM is that Oracle offers many templates you can download from edelivery.oracle.com and import into your repository with Oracle VM Manager (OVMM). Well, since I did the same mistake that you did, that is, not reading the entire README file, I confused templates with assemblies. Say you want to download a template for Oracle Linux 6, you have to select product pack Oracle VM Templates. The downloaded zip contains one file with extension .ova (does not mean Oracle Virtual Assembly, but Open Virtualization Format Archive). Since it is written “VM Templates” several places on the web site, it is easy to think it should be imported under VM Templates, but you need to select Assemblies as shown here and do the import from there: ...

I struggled to connect to the console of a newly created VM. The VM was created using Oracle VM Manager (OVMM) and despite efforts to install the required packages I could not use the console button in the Manager interface. I noticed that the VNC server built into the VM was listening on 127.0.0.1 only (on the OVM server), you can see this if you check the file vm.cfg for the guest. Without analysing how the OVMM would try to connect to the VNC server on the other host I decided to create an ssh tunnel from my Mac to the OVM server: ...

Just a simple trick to import ISO files to the repository using Oracle VM Manager (OVMM). The import function supports imports through protocols http, https and ftp. If you want to do this in the supported way you can use a simple web server to serve the ISO files for you. Python comes with a simple http server built in. If you have python installed (which is the case on both the OVM server and the OVMM host) you can start it with: ...

This is an old post I kept as draft 8 months before I published it… I’ve been playing around with Oracle Virtual Manager (OVM) version 2.2 lately. This is collection of a few notes, not all directly related to OVM. The project started with building the server from parts I hoped would play along (they do). The CPU is an Intel i7-930, 12GB of RAM and two Western Digital 1.5TB disks (WD15EARS-00Z5B1). Current version of OVM (2.2) uses update 3 of OEL 5. The kernel lags behind a bit and support for certain wirless card is not included. The AR5008 Wireless chip from Atheros (a Dlink card) was not supported; in order to avoid more cables in the house I created a bridge between the server and another PC nearby. ...