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KVM
July 6, 2017
Enabling KVM on ODA
Article Table of Contents
- KVM on ODA Overview
- Enabling KVM on ODA
- Creating Guest VM storage for KVM
- KVM Networking on ODA
- Deploy a KVM guest on ODA
- Importing an OVA Template into KVM on ODA
- KVM Troubleshooting
The following rpms are included with Oracle Database Appliance release 12.1.2.11 to enable the KVM hypervisor.
- kvm - The kvm package contains the KVM kernel module providing the KVM hypervisor
- python-virtinst - Provides the virt-install command for creating virtual machines.
- libvirt - libvirt is an API library for interacting with hypervisors. libvirt uses the xm virtualization framework and the virsh command line tool to manage and control virtual machines.
- libvirt-python - The libvirt-python package contains a module that permits applications written in the Python programming language to use the interface supplied by the libvirt API.
- virt-manager* - virt-manager, also known as Virtual Machine Manager, provides a graphical tool for administering virtual machines. It uses libvirt library as the management API. Note: virt-manager RPM was not included in the 12.1.2.11 release. Please download from YUM library.
- qemu-kvm - Userspace component of KVM
- qemu-img - QEMU command line tool for manipulating disk images
To begin using KVM on ODA, you must start the libvirtd deamon. Logged in as root, type the following command:
| service libvirtd start |
To verify if libvirtd is running, execute the following command:
| service libvirtd status libvirtd (pid 12401) is running... |
Download virt-manager
In the 12.1.2.11, the virt-manager was not included. But you can download it.
1. Setup Oracle public yum repository
| # cd /etc/yum.repos.d # wget http://yum.oracle.com/public-yum-ol6.repo |
2. Install 'virt-manager'
| # yum install virt-manager |
If the KVM RPMs are not applied in the Patch?
If the patch did not apply the KVM RPMs, then you can apply them manually.
| #cd /opt/oracle/oak/pkgrepos/os/12.1.2.11.0/osrpms #rpm -ivh libvirt-0.10.2-60.0.1.el6.x86_64.rpm libvirt-python-0.10.2-60.0.1.el6.x86_64.rpm libvirt-client-0.10.2-60.0.1.el6.x86_64.rpm perl-Sys-Virt-0.10.2-6.el6.x86_64.rpm qemu-img-0.12.1.2-2.491.el6.x86_64.rpm python-virtinst-0.600.0-29.0.2.el6.noarch.rpm qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.491.el6.x86_64.rpm oracle-ofed-release-1.0.0-15.el6.x86_64.rpm |
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