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Oracle VM Manager 2.1.2

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2009
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847197122
Length 244 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Tarry Singh Tarry Singh
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Oracle VM Manager 2.1.2
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
1. Preface
1. Introduction to Oracle VM FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing Oracle VM Manager 3. Installing Oracle VM Server 4. Oracle VM Management 5. Managing Virtual Machines with Oracle VM Manager: Part 1 6. Managing Virtual Machines with Oracle VM Manager: Part 2 7. Managing Virtual Machines with Oracle VM Manager: Part 3 8. Troubleshooting and Gotchas Command Line Tools

Importing Virtual Machine images


We just looked at the importing process of VM templates; now let's explore the VM images. These images are ready to be deployed the minute you have them in your Oracle VM Manager.

You can import both Oracle and VMware Virtual Machines with this utility. While importing Oracle VM Manager it is possible to convert VMware Virtual Machines seamlessly via the V2V process.

We also explore the capability of converting the VMware disk *.vmdk into a *.img file. Other formats are also supported, such as vvfat, vpc, bochs, dmg, cloop, vmdk, qcow, cow, and raw.

Ensure that the vm.cfg file has the right parameters; in our case we made sure to point it to the right disk:

disk = ['file:/OVS/running_pool/XP4VMotion/system.img,hdc:cdrom,r']

Importing a Virtual Machine image

Getting the Virtual Machine images can take place in several ways. You could get them from the Server Pool, get them from the external cloud, or convert the VM from Linux VM to a VM with the P2V utility...

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