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Aim:   With the below steps you can import a physical machine to a virtual machine hosted in Oracle VM. Requirements:   Physical host going to hold the imported VM with P2V utility required to have enough RAM and CPU for the hosted application on machine to be imported  Physical host going to hold the imported VM with P2V utility required to have same and above free disk space available as the imported machine  Keep enough backup of the data on physical host to be imported   Steps:   Insert installation disk of OVM 3.4 (any subversion is ok to go) in the concerned machine and boot it from CD Once boots up, enter “p2v” at the boot prompt   When prompted for IP configuration add the guest machine (to be created) IP configuration. It should be same IP address as physical server that is to be imported (from this IP http server will start) Select the disks to be imported Enter new VM name and CPU, RAM details  A secure ...

Oracle VM Upgrade This document covers the steps to upgrade OVM environment from 3.3.3 to 3.4.2 (upgrade in one step without any incremental upgrades). This includes OVM manager server OS upgrade as well. Before proceeding to follow this document, check the compatibility of upgrade from current version to latest in Oracle documentation since it keeps on changing for each new version. Upgrade Overview: From a high level, the steps to upgrade Oracle VM are as follows: 1. Download required ISO from Oracle Edelivery 2. Backup OVM manager (OVMM)  and Oracle VM servers (OVS) 3. Upgrade OVMM to latest with runinstaller script 4. Reinstall OS on OVMM to latest version from ISO 5. Reinstall OVM manager with UUID and runinstaller script 6. Upgrade OVS via OVMM GUI one by one. 1. Download all necessary ISO from Edelivery Download following ISO from Edelivery at https://edelivery.oracle.com/ a) Oracle VM Server 3.4.2 for x86 ISO b) ...