In the last chapter, we covered the detailed installation of Oracle VM Manager. In this chapter we will explore the installation of the backbone of the Oracle's IntraCloud or Private Cloud farm, the Oracle VM Server. In particular, we will be covering:
Guest OS support in the Oracle VM Server 2.1.2 Release
Hardware and software requirements
Installation of Oracle VM Server from CD ROM
Installation of Oracle VM Server from other sources
Upgrading the Oracle VM Server
We can quickly examine the guest Operating Systems that are supported and tested on Oracle VM Server. Here's a list of supported guest OSes.
Guest OS 64 bit Hyper visor |
Paravirtualized 32bits|64 bits |
Hardware Virtualized 32 bits | 64 bits |
---|---|---|
Red Hat EL 3.x |
Yes|No |
Yes|Yes |
Red Hat EL 4.x |
Yes|Yes |
Yes|Yes |
Oracle EL 4.x |
Yes|Yes |
Yes|Yes |
Red Hat EL 5.x |
Yes|Yes |
Yes|Yes |
Oracle EL 5.x |
Yes|Yes |
Yes|Yes |
And in the list of tested guest...