Comments on: Oracle VM: a first installation attempt

By: prasad

prasad — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 08:12:05 +0000

hello,

i want to create virtyal machine on oracle VM.i have to import iso fiel in /OVS/iso_pool path…..then reboot the machine.afterwards,i have to go login page on oracle VM SHOW THE ERROR LOGIN FAILD…

WHY?ANY POSSIBLITY TO RECOVER?

By: Ramon

Ramon — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:38:32 +0000

Thanks for the iso tip, you saved may day. :)

By: janos ujvari

janos ujvari — Tue, 13 May 2008 07:54:33 +0000

Thanks for this description it was very helpful.
Janos Ujvari
May, 13. 2008.
Subotica, Vojvodina

By: dhoogfr

dhoogfr — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 09:30:59 +0000

René,

Sorry for the late response
I’m affraid I can’t really help you with this one. I think that the virtual disks are created in the OVS filesystem, which is an OCFS filesystem (although nfs should be possible as well). Have you checked if this filesystem is available?

By: Renx

Renx — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:56:54 +0000

hi, the VM Manager gives to me the following Error

Error The largest virtual disk that can be allocated is 0 MB

i don’t know why, all partitions on VM Server has enought disk space.

Can you help me please

–
RENÉ FELIPE VIANCOS S.
Director / IT Manager

CENTRO DE INFORMÁTICA Y COMPUTACIÓN
(Informatics and Computing Center)

UNIVERSIDAD DE LA SERENA
http://www.userena.cl

By: Chris Bullock

Chris Bullock — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:43:46 +0000

You are correct in that paravirtualized does not support Windows at this time. I am hearing Jan. 8th of 2008, but that is just what I have read. The issue that I have run into is this. I have Oracle VM Manager on a server and Oracle VM Server on another server. I have loaded my Win2003 iso into /OVS/iso_pool/install_images and imported it using VM manager. I approved it and everything looks good. I then went to creat the VM and it comes back with the error: “failed:>
Not sure what it is trying to pull from the cdrom if anything at this point.

By: dhoogfr

dhoogfr — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:18:06 +0000

Chris,

If I am not mistaken, windows is not supported as a paravirtualized guest (no possibility to modify the kernel).
This would mean that you need a processor that supports hardware virtualisation (intel-vt or amd-v).
Unfortunately the test hardware I have does not have such processors, so windows as guest system is a no go for me :(

By: Chris Bullock

Chris Bullock — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:44:31 +0000

Sorry, I jumped the gun. I had the server pool go inactive on me for some reason. Not sure why, but once I got it to active, I was able to do exactly what you had mentioned as far as logging off and back on and I was good to go.
Thanks…..
I am trying to use a Windows 2003 Ent Server ISO and I am now having issues with the creation of the actual VM. Not sure if it has anything to do with Intel-VT or AMD-V at this point

By: dhoogfr

dhoogfr — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:19:03 +0000

Chris,

That is strange.
In fact, it does not have to be install_images, it can be any directory name.
This directory name should be shown as the iso group name during the iso import steps.

Following is on my oracle vm server (not management server):

[root@dargo iso_pool]# pwd
/OVS/iso_pool

[root@dargo iso_pool]# ls -l
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 3 17:53 elinux_45_32bit
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 22 16:47 elinux_50_32bit
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 21 01:19 install_images

Now when I log on to the management website and click on “resources” / “ISO Files” / “import” / “Internal ISO” / “Next”, I get screen with some drop down boxes.
In the first box I can select the server pool name, and then in the second I get the names of the directories existing below /OVS/iso_pool (elinux_45_32bit, …). Once I have selected one of the directories, I can select the names of the iso files from the third box.
Once such an iso file has been imported it disappears from the selection list, if all iso files in a certain directory have been imported the directory name itself also disappears from the “iso group” box.

By: Chris Bullock

Chris Bullock — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:04:54 +0000

Although I used install_images and imported the iso file and logged off and back on, I am still unable to see the ISO group or Iso label