Install Oracle VM Manager

Created by : Hans Camu

Date : 22 Jan 2011

http://camoraict.wordpress.com

This paper is the second in a series describing how-to install Oracle VM Server and several Oracle

VM guests. In this paper I will describe how-to install Oracle VM Manager.

I will describe how to create a Oracle Virtual machine using virt-install using a kickstart file. On this

virtual machine Oracle VM Manager will be installed.

The steps described is this paper will be:

Download Oracle VM Manager

Download Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.5 64-bit

Create a kickstart file

Install OEL 5.5 on a virtual machine

Install and configure Oracle VM Manager

Import the created virtual machine into Oracle VM Manager

But first I will start with a quick overview about the Oracle VM Manager components and

requirements.

Oracle VM Manager components All Oracle VM components are available on the ISO image which can be downloaded from

http://edelivery.oracle.com/oraclevm.

These components are:

Oracle VM Manager

This is the Oracle VM Manager application

Oracle Database 10g Express Edition

Although an existing database can be used, while performing a new installation of Oracle VM

Manager, Oracle Database 10g XE can be installed. I will use the XE database in this paper.

Data Collector

Collects data from the server pools and stores the information in the Oracle VM respoitory

database.

Oracle Instance Client

If u decide to use an existing database, the Oracle Instant client can be installed to connect to the

database. In that case the Oracle Instant Client will be installed in the following location:

/opt/ovs-manager-2.2/instantclient-10.2.0.3

Oracle Containers for J2EE (OC4J)

This is the 10.1.3 standalone version, including Application Development Framework (ADF)

10.1.3.3

XML-RPC 3.0

This is the Apache XML-RPC library, which is an implementation of the XML-RPC specification

Hardware requirements

To install Oracle VM Manager your computer must meet the following minimum requirements:

Memory 2 GB

Processor Speed 1.83 GHz

Swap Space 2GB

Hard Disk Space 4 GB

Software requirements The following web browsers support the access to the Oracle VM Manager user interface:

Operating System Oracle Enterprise Linux 4 Update 5 or later

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Release 4 or later

Web Browser Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4

Mozilla Firefox 1.5

Mozilla Firefox 1.7

Mozilla Firefox 2.0

Safafi 2.x (for Mac)

Netscape 7.2

Prerequisite Packages libaio-0.3.106-3.2

Prerequisite Ports Ports 8888 and 8899 must be available

During the Oracle VM Manager installation, you are required to set the following

ports and passwords:

The Oracle XE HTTP port. The default port number is 8080.

The Oracle XE listening port. The default port number is 1521.

The password for the Oracle XE SYS and SYSTEM accounts.

The password for the Oracle VM Manager OVS database schema.

The password for the OC4J oc4jadmin account.

The password for the Web Service keystore file.

The host name of an SMTP server.

The Email address and password for the Oracle VM Manager admin account.

Now we are ready to actually start with the installation.

Follow the next steps to install Oracle VM Manager:

1. Download Oracle VM Manager from here: http://edelivery.oracle.com/oraclevm

2. The complete official guide to install Oracle VM Manager 2.2 is available here: Oracle VM

Manager Installation guide.

3. Download the OEL 5.5 64-bit DVD ISO from here: http://edelivery.oracle.com/linux

4. Copy the Oracle VM Manager and OEL 5.5 64-bit ISO images to the Oracle VM Server with, for

example, WinSCP.

As you can recall from the paper Install Oracle VM Server a /software directory was created.

In this directory create an iso directory to store all iso files needed.

5. Create a mount point directory for the Oracle VM Manager ISO

[root@oraovs01 /]# mkdir -p /mount/OVM

6. Create a mount point directory for the OEL 5.5 64-bit ISO

[root@oraovs01 /]# mkdir -p /mount/OEL5u5_x86_64

7. In a next step a kickstart file for the installation of OEL5.5 wil be created. Create a directory to

store this kickstart file.

[root@oraovs01 /]# mkdir -p /software/kickstart

8. I prefer to keep these mount points available at all times, even after a restart of the Oracle VM

Server. Therefore I will add the moint points to the /etc/exports and /etc/fstab files:

Add the next lines to the /etc/exports file:

[root@oraovs01 /]# vi /etc/exports

/mount/OEL5u5_x86_64 *(ro,root_squash)

/mount/OVM *(ro,root_squash)

/software/kickstart *(ro,root_squash)

Add the next lines to the /etc/fstab file:

[root@oraovs01 /]# vi /etc/fstab

/software/ISO/Enterprise-R5-U5-Server-x86_64-dvd.iso /mount/OEL5u5_x86_64

iso9660 loop,auto 0 0

/software/ISO/OracleVM-Manager-2.2.0.iso /mount/OVM iso9660 loop,auto 0 0

9. Mount the ISO files:

[root@oraovs01 software]# mount -a

10. Check if all mount points are available:

[root@oraovs01 /]# df –h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/sdb2 3.0G 848M 2.0G 30% /

/dev/sdb5 448G 4.2G 420G 1% /software

/dev/sdb1 99M 45M 49M 48% /boot

tmpfs 283M 0 283M 0% /dev/shm

/software/ISO/Enterprise-R5-U5-Server-x86_64-dvd.iso

3.4G 3.4G 0 100% /mount/OEL5u5_x86_64

/software/ISO/OracleVM-Manager-2.2.0.iso

585M 585M 0 100% /mount/OVM

/dev/sda1 1.9T 6.0G 1.9T 1%

/var/ovs/mount/3ED0604DAC404C9C885610990A3512E6

11. Now the NFS service can be started:

[root@oraovs01 /]# service nfs start

Starting NFS services: [ OK ]

Starting NFS quotas: [ OK ]

Starting NFS daemon: [ OK ]

Starting NFS mountd: [ OK ]

And check if the moint points have been exported:

[root@oraovs01 /]# exportfs

/mount/OEL5u5_x86_64

<world>

/software/kickstart

<world>

/mount/OVM <world>

12. Configure the nfs service to start on boot:

[root@oraovs01 /]# chkconfig nfs on

[root@oraovs01 /]# chkconfig nfs --list

nfs 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

13. Now we are going to create a kickstart file to install OEL5.5 64-bit.

Using a kickstart file will really make your installation easier an much quicker.

Also, with just a few modifications, a kickstart file is reusable for other installations

[root@oraovs01 /]# vi /software/kickstart/OEL5u5_x86_64_OVM.cfg

##START of kickstart file

install

reboot

text

lang en_US.UTF-8

keyboard us

network --device eth0 --bootproto static --ip 192.168.0.201 --netmask

255.255.255.0 --gateway 192.168.0.1 --nameserver 192.168.0.1 --hostname oraovm01

--noipv6

# root pass is oracle

rootpw --iscrypted $1$wGAh8J7a$s3VZ07TWA8EcAUQG7esZt0

firewall --disabled

authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5

selinux --disable

timezone Europe/Amsterdam

bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=xvda

clearpart --initlabel

part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 --ondisk=xvda

part pv.2 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=xvda

volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=8192 pv.2

logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=lvsys00 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=2048 --grow

logvol swap --fstype swap --name=lvsys01 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=2048

services --disabled sendmail,xfs,bluetooth,cups,ip6tables,iptables

%packages

@base

@core

fipscheck

squashfs-tools

device-mapper-multipath

sgpio

e4fsprogs

oracle-validated

createrepo

audit

sysstat

%post --log=/root/ks-post.log

{

#~-> Remove GRUB's splash image

/bin/ed <<EOT /etc/grub.conf

1,$ s/^splashimage/#splashimage/

.

wq

EOT

# create group

/usr/sbin/groupadd -g 501 dba

#oracle password is oracle

/usr/sbin/useradd -c 'oracle user' -u 500 -p

'$1$wGAh8J7a$s3VZ07TWA8EcAUQG7esZt0' -g dba -G dba oracle

# Setup generic oracle profile

cat > /etc/profile.d/oracle_profile.sh << EOF

# .bash_profile

#

######extend the search path

export PATH=\$PATH:\$HOME/bin

id|grep '(dba)' >/dev/null

if [ \$? = 0 ] ; then

if [ \$USER = "oracle" ]; then

if [ \$SHELL = "/bin/ksh" ]; then

ulimit -p 16384

ulimit -n 65536

else

ulimit -u 16384 -n 65536

fi

fi

fi

####### Set some linux variables

umask 022

if tty -s

then

set -o vi

export EDITOR=vi

export TERM=vt100

stty erase ^?

[ -s "\$MAIL" ] && echo "\$MAILMSG"

fi

####### Environment variables for Oracle

export ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle

export ORACLE_TERM=vt100

export NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.UTF8

export NLS_DATE_FORMAT='DD-MM-YYYY:HH24:MI:SS'

export NLS_SORT=Binary

export ORAADMIN=\$ORACLE_BASE/admin

export TNS_ADMIN=\$ORAADMIN/network/admin

####### extend search path

export PATH=\${PATH}:/software

###### if interactive session

if tty -s

then

alias l="ls -al"

alias lt="ls -lt|more"

alias rm="rm -i"

alias ob="cd ${ORACLE_BASE}"

alias oh="cd "\${ORACLE_HOME}""

alias oa="cd \${ORAADMIN}"

alias sp="sqlplus /nolog"

alias sid='grep "^.....:" /etc/oratab | sort'

alias up="ps -ef|grep pm[o]n|awk '{print substr(\$NF,10)}'|sort"

alias oracle="sudo su - oracle"

alias root="sudo su -"

fi

####### Set unix prompt

export PS1="\${USER}@\`hostname -s\`:\${PWD} $ "

if tty -s

then

#create aliases for all ORACLE_SIDs

echo -n aliases:

for LINE in \`cat /etc/oratab| sort | grep -v "^*" | grep -vE "#|^[ ]*$"\`

do

sid=\`echo \$LINE|cut -f 1 -d :\`

alias \${sid}="ORAENV_ASK=NO; ORACLE_SID=\${sid}; . oraenv;unset

ORAENV_ASK"

echo -n \${sid}" "

done

echo

fi

#

# Always place personal settings in the my_profile file !

#

if tty -s

then

[ -f "\${HOME}/my_profile" ] && . \${HOME}/my_profile

fi

####### End .profile

EOF

# Setup sudo for oracle

cat > /etc/sudoers << EOF

%rootmembers ALL=NOPASSWD: /bin/su -

%oraclemembers,%rootmembers ALL=NOPASSWD: /bin/su - oracle

oracle ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

root ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

EOF

} 1>/root/ks-post.log 2>&1

##END of kickstart file

We are ready to create a virtual machine. We will use virt-install to create this virtual machine

To prevent you get an error that the kickstart file could not be find, you must first stop the firewall.

To do this stop the iptables service:

[root@oraovs01 /]# service iptables stop

Flushing firewall rules:

Now create a directory to store the files for the virtual machine:

[root@oraovs01 /]# mkdir -p /OVS/local/oraovm01

Now you can create the virtual machine with virt-install:

[root@oraovs01 /]# virt-install -f/OVS/local/oraovm01/System.img -s8 -noraovm01

-r2048 --nographics -p -lnfs:192.168.0.200:/mount/OEL5u5_x86_64 -x

"ks=nfs:192.168.0.200:/software/kickstart/OEL5u5_x86_64_OVM.cfg"

The used options of virt-install are the following:

-f Sets the file to use as the disk image.

-s Sets the size of the disk image in Gigabytes

-n Sets the name of the guest instance.

-r Sets the memory to allocate for a guest instance in Megabytes

--nographics Do not use a graphical console for the guest.

-p Sets the guest as being a paravirtualized guest.

-l Sets the installation source for a paravirtualized guest

-x Any additional arguments to pass to the installer with a paravirtualized

guest.

If you get a screen with the announcement that the kickstart file could not be find, then you

probably have a firewall issue. To solve this, stop the iptables service and try again:

[root@oraovs01 /]# service iptables stop

Flushing firewall rules:

The installation will start immediately without any interaction. A console will be opened

automatically so you can see the progress of the installation.

Unfortunately the installation ends with an error. This error can be ignored.

Guest installation complete... restarting guest.

libvir: Xen Daemon error : internal error domain information incomplete, missing kernel

Entity: line 25: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: os line 5 and domain

</domain>

^

Entity: line 26: parser error : Premature end of data in tag domain line 1

^

libvir: Xen Daemon error : internal error domain information incomplete, missing kernel

Entity: line 25: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: os line 5 and domain

</domain>

^

Entity: line 26: parser error : Premature end of data in tag domain line 1

After this error the virtual machine is restarted. To check this you can use the xm command:

[root@oraovs01 /]# xm list

Name ID Mem VCPUs State Time(s)

Domain-0 0 564 8 r----- 782.2

oraovm01 2 2048 1 -b---- 15.8

To open a console for the new virtual machine:

[root@oraovs01 /]# xm console oraovm01

Now you can login as root (and password oracle, as set in the kickstart file).

Enterprise Linux Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Carthage)

Kernel 2.6.18-194.el5xen on an x86_64

oraovm01 login: root

Password:

Let’s do a few quick checks to make sure the name and ip-address of the virtual machine is as

expected:

[root@oraovs01 /]# uname -a

Linux oraovm01 2.6.18-194.el5xen #1 SMP Mon Mar 29 22:22:00 EDT 2010 x86_64

x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[root@oraovs01 /]# ifconfig -a

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:3E:6E:94:06

inet addr:192.168.0.201 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

inet6 addr: fe80::216:3eff:fe6e:9406/64 Scope:Link

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:100 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:34 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:31501 (30.7 KiB) TX bytes:4732 (4.6 KiB)

Check if the libaio package is installed:

root@oraovm01::/root

$ /bin/rpm -q libaio.i386

libaio-0.3.106-5

Make sure port 8888 and 8899 are available. If no response if given, the ports are available.

root@oraovm01::/root

$ netstat -na |grep 8888

root@oraovm01::/root

$ netstat -na |grep 8899

And YES, the virtual machine looks fine!

Now we are ready to install Oracle VM Manager on this virtual machine.

14. On the Oracle VM Server we have exported the OVM mount point in a previous step.

We will use this to install Oracle VM Manager.

First create a directory in the new virtual machine to mount the OVM installation directory:

root@oraovm01::/root

$ mkdir /OVM-mnt

Now mount the OVM installation directory:

root@oraovm01::/root

$ mount -t nfs 192.168.0.200:/mount/OVM /OVM-mnt

The Oracle VM Manager installation files are now available for use:

root@oraovm01::/root

$ ls -ltr /OVM-mnt

total 109

-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4180 Jul 13 2009 readme.txt

-r--r--r-- 1 root root 6922 Jul 13 2009 LICENSE

-r--r--r-- 1 root root 6922 Jul 13 2009 EULA

-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 80530 Sep 25 2009 runInstaller.sh

dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 6144 Oct 13 2009 scripts

dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 13 2009 source

-r--r--r-- 1 root root 1321 Oct 13 2009 TRANS.TBL

Change to the moint point you created and start the installation with the runInstaller.sh script:

root@oraovm01::/root

$ cd /OVM-mnt

root@oraovm01::/root

$ ./runInstaller.sh

15. Enter choice 1 to install Oracle VM Manager:

Welcome to Oracle VM Manager 2.2

Please enter the choice: [1|2|3]

1. Install Oracle VM Manager

2. Uninstall Oracle VM Manager

3. Upgrade Oracle VM Manager

The installation of Oracle VM Manager will start

16. You can choose to use an existing database in the network or create a local Oracle XE database.

Choose 1 to install a local Oracle XE database:

Do you want to install a new database or use an existing one? [1|2]

1. Install a new Oracle XE database on localhost

2. Use an existing Oracle database in my network

17. Enter the HTTP port to use for Oracle Application Express.

Press Enter to accept the default setting of 8080:

Oracle Database 10g Express Edition Configuration

-------------------------------------------------

This will configure on-boot properties of Oracle Database 10g Express

Edition. The following questions will determine whether the database should

be starting upon system boot, the ports it will use, and the passwords that

will be used for database accounts. Press <Enter> to accept the defaults.

Ctrl-C will abort.

Specify the HTTP port that will be used for Oracle Application Express [8080]:

18. Enter the port to use for the database listener.

Press Enter to accept the default setting of 1521:

Specify a port that will be used for the database listener [1521]:

19. Enter the password to use for the SYS and SYSTEM accounts for the Oracle XE database and

confirm this password:

Specify a password to be used for database accounts. Note that the same

password will be used for SYS and SYSTEM. Oracle recommends the use of

different passwords for each database account. This can be done after

initial configuration:

Confirm the password:

20. Accept the default setting of starting the Oracle XE database on boot.

Press Enter to accept this default setting:

Do you want Oracle Database 10g Express Edition to be started on boot (y/n) [y]:

This listener will now be started en the database will be created and configured.

To access the Database Home Page go to "http://127.0.0.1:8080/apex"

21. Enter the password to use for the OVS account for the Oracle VM Manager database and confirm

this password:

Set default database schema to 'OVS'.

Please enter the password for account 'OVS':

Confirm the password:

22. The installation continues with installing the Oracle VM Manager packages and OC4J.

As soon as this is finished enter a password to use for the oc4jadmin account and confirm this

password:

Please enter the password for account 'oc4jadmin':

Confirm the password:

23. Enter a password to use for the Web Service keystore file and confirm this password:

Please enter the keystore password for the Web Service:

Confirm the password:

24. I don’t use HTTPS to access the Oracle VM Manager. Enter n to use HTTP:

Do you want to use HTTPS access for Oracle VM Manager (Y|n)?n

25. Enter the password to use for the default Oracle VM Manager account admin and confirm this

password:

Please enter the password for the default account 'admin':

Confirm the password:

26. Enter the hostname for a SMTP server. The mail server check will fail because this host can’t be

reached. Enter n to prevent a retry to verify this mail server:

Configuring SMTP server ...

Please enter the outgoing SMTP mail server(e.g. - mail.abc.com,

mail.abc.com:25): smtp.dummy.com

Mail server checking, may need some time, please wait ...

Mail server smtp.dummy.com' check failed, enter Y to change the name and retry

or N to keep hostname and continue(Y|n)?n

Setting the SMTP server to smtp.dummy.com ...

Done

27. Enter the email address for the Oracle VM Manager admin account and confirm this email

address. Because this email address can’t be reached enter n to prevent a retry to verify this email

address:

Please enter an e-mail address for account 'admin': foo@dummy.com

Confirm the e-mail address : foo@dummy.com

Unable to send an email to 'foo@dummy.com', would you like to change the email

address(Y|n)?n

Updating e-mail address for account 'admin' to 'foo@dummy.com' ...

Done

28. The installation is now completed successfully.

The following URLs can be used to access Oracle VM Manager and its components:

To access the Oracle VM Manager 2.2 home page go to:

http://127.0.0.1:8888/OVS

To access the Oracle VM Manager web services WSDL page go to:

http://127.0.0.1:8888/OVSWS/LifecycleService.wsdl

http://127.0.0.1:8888/OVSWS/ResourceService.wsdl

http://127.0.0.1:8888/OVSWS/PluginService.wsdl

http://127.0.0.1:8888/OVSWS/ServerPoolService.wsdl

http://127.0.0.1:8888/OVSWS/VirtualMachineService.wsdl

http://127.0.0.1:8888/OVSWS/AdminService.wsdl

To access the Oracle VM Manager help page go to:

http://127.0.0.1:8888/help/help

29. To access virtual machines using the Oracle VM Manager UI with the Console feature, you must

install TightVNC. This applet enables non-Linux users to connect to a virtual machine’s console.

TightVNC must be installed on the Oracle VM Manager host.

Download the TightVNC package from here:

http://oss.oracle.com/oraclevm/manager/RPMS/

Copy the TightVNC package to the Oracle VM Manager host with, for example, WinSCP and

then install the package:

root@oraovm01:/root $ rpm -ivh tightvnc-java-1.3.9-3.noarch.rpm

warning: tightvnc-java-1.3.9-3.noarch.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key

ID 1e5e0159

Preparing... ########################################### [100%]

1:tightvnc-java ########################################### [100%]

30. At this moment is it possible to access Oracle VM Manager with a web browser. But in the UI you

will not find the Oracle VM Manager virtual machine, because the directory structure must meet

the requirements. To access virtual machines from Oracle VM Manager a virtual machine must be

available in the directory /OVS/running_pool/<virtual machine name>. In the next steps we will

import the Oracle VM Virtual machine into Oracle VM Manager.

If you are not still in the console then fist login to the Oracle VM Manager virtual machine to

modify a few settings. Use the root account to login:

[root@oraovs01 ~]# xm console oraovm01

Enterprise Linux Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Carthage)

Kernel 2.6.18-194.el5xen on an x86_64

oraovm01 login: root

Password:

Last login: Sat Jan 22 14:02:18 on xvc0

aliases:XE

root@oraovm01:/root $

31. Edit the /etc/grub.conf file and remove the addition console=xvc0.

Change line:

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.el5xen ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/lvsys00 console=xvc0

into:

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.el5xen ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/lvsys00

32. Modify the /etc/inittab file and remove # for starting the terminal window.

Change line:

#1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1

into:

1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1

33. Now stop the virtual machine with the poweroff command:

root@oraovm01:/root $ poweroff

Broadcast message from root (xvc0) (Sat Jan 22 15:38:34 2011):

The system is going down for system halt NOW!

34. Check if the virtual machine has been stopped with the xm command:

[root@oraovs01 ~]# xm list

Name ID Mem VCPUs State Time(s)

Domain-0 0 564 8 r----- 822.2

If the virtual machine hasn’t stopped, then this can be done with the command:

[root@oraovs01 ~]# xm shutdown oraovm01

35. Move directory /OVS/local/oraovm01 to /OVS/running_pool:

[root@oraovs01 ~]# mv -v /OVS/local/oraovm01 /OVS/running_pool/

`/OVS/local/oraovm01' -> `/OVS/running_pool/oraovm01'

36. Move the virtual machine configuration file /etc/xen/oraovm01 to directory

/OVS/running/pool/oraovm01:

[root@oraovs01 ~]# mv -v /etc/xen/oraovm01 /OVS/running_pool/oraovm01/vm.cfg

`/etc/xen/oraovm01' -> `/OVS/running_pool/oraovm01/vm.cfg'

removed `/etc/xen/oraovm01'

37. Modify the Oracle VM Manager virtual machine’s configuration file to point to the new diskfile

location:

[root@oraovs01 ~]# vi /OVS/running_pool/oraovm01/vm.cfg

Change line:

disk = [ 'file:/OVS/local/oraovm01/System.img,xvda,w', ]

into:

disk = [ 'file:/OVS/running_pool/oraovm01/System.img,xvda,w', ]

38. Now start the Oracle VM Manager virtual machine with the xm command:

[root@oraovs01 ~]# xm create -c /OVS/running_pool/oraovm01/vm.cfg

Using config file "/OVS/running_pool/oraovm01/vm.cfg".

The -c option automatically connects you to the console of the virtual machine. You are now able

to monitor the startup of the virtual machine.

Once you get a prompt and you can login, the virtual machine is started correctly.

39. Edit the /etc/hosts file (also perform this step on your Oracle VM Server):

$ vi /etc/hosts

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs

# that require network functionality will fail.

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost

192.168.0.200 oraovs01

192.168.0.201 oraovm01

To use hostnames instead of ip-addresses you can also edit the hosts file from where you use your

web browser. In windows for example, the location is C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts.

To exit the console use Control] (Control + ]).

40. Login to Oracle VM Manager with a web browser (http://oraovm01:8888/OVS).

First we have to add the Oracle VM Server to a server pool:

Click Next to start the Server Pool configuration wizard.

41. Specify the details of the Oracle VM Server:

Server Pool Name ovspool01

Server Host/IP oraovs01

Server Name oraovs01

Server Agent Password your ovs-agent password

Server Username root

Server Password oracle (set in kickstart file)

Click Test Connection to check if a connection can be established with the server.

42. Now create the serverpool:

Click Create

The serverpool is now created and contains the Oracle VM Server.

43. Navigate to tab Servers to check if oraovs01 is active:

44. Navigate to tab Resources and in this tab click Virtual Machine Images:

Click button Import

45. Select radio button Select from Server Pool (Discover and register) and click button Next:

46. Specify the details of the virtual machine:

Server Pool Name ovspool01

Sharing Private

Virtual Machine Image Name oraovm01

Operating System Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 64-bit

Virtual Machine System Username root

Virtal Machine System Password oracle (set in kickstart file)

Console Password Set at your own choice

Confirm Console Password Confirm previous set password

Description Oracle VM Manager

Click button Next

47. Check the details and if correct click button Confirm:

48. As soon as the virtual machine is imported into Oracle VM Manager the virtual machine has the

status pending. Before you can use this virtual machine in Oracle VM Manager you must approve

it first.

Click button Approve

49. Check the details and if correct click button Approve:

50. The virtual machine is now approved for use in Oracle VM Manager. Navigate to tab Virtual

Machines to check the imported virtual machine:

Congratulations. The installation is complete!

You have created a virtual machine, installed Oracle VM Manager onto the virtual machine and

added the virtual machine to Oracle VM Manager.

In a next paper I will discuss some of the components of Oracle VM Manager.