In my initial work with Oracle VM, I have run into a few fringe cases, which are not well documented, but actually have rather simple solutions. This one actually cropped up over the weekend for me. Over the weekend I decided to rebuild my company-issued laptop with Ubuntu Linux (12.04…
Oracle VM 3.x: Reset Agent Password
Oracle VM, is a centrally managed hypervisor. All administrative actions must be performed from the Oracle VM Manager. In order to facilitate the initial discovery of the Hypervisor by the Management Server part of the setup requires that we not only set the password for the root user, but also…
Installing Oracle VM Manager 3.1.1
In my new role at Keste, I am tasked with staying on the bleeding edge of software release cycles, so that we can be knowledgeable and authoritative about technology when we engage with customers. One of the areas where Keste leads is on Oracle’s Virtualization Offerings. So I will be…
ESX 5: Command Line VM Manipulation
I haven’t been working with ESX for a bit, but while I was I was mostly interacting with it via the command line. Here is a list I had compiled while I was going through that exercise, and since I while be starting a job next week where I will…
Linux-KVM: Ubuntu 12.04 with Openvswitch
UPDATE: October 29, 2012 This article doesn’t work on Ubuntu 12.10, to use Ubuntu 12.10 please refer to my new article here. Openvswitch is a better way of managing your virtual networking stacks for KVM and Xen. This can be used instead of the bridge-utils package, and has the ability…