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Oracle Linux 5.9

Oracle Linux 5.9 was uploaded yesterday to http://linux.oracle.com (ULN) and to http://public-yum.oracle.com. The _latest channels are
current and the 5.9_base channels contain the core.

ISO images will be available shortly from http://edelivery.oracle.com. If there is an urgent need to get the ISOs through My Oracle Support, simply file a service request.

Release notes are here.

Jan 16, 2013 2:16pm

Windows 7: The Never Ending Printer

The past couple of weeks I have been dealing with a fairly aggravating issue at home.  My wife has a Windows 7 laptop which for some reason started printing everything repeatedly (repeatedly being defined as forever and ever until the bottom of the paper tray was found).  Our printer in particular is a HP Laserjet 1022n which is connected to the network, and my wife’s computer connects via the network directly (as in not using any print server to mediate the jobs).  When this was occurring and looking at the print queue I was seeing the one job, however the job kept flashing (or perhaps bli

Jan 16, 2013 4:00am

Solaris 11: Using Crashplan for Cloud Backups

I personally use Crashplan for my cloud based backups (I have for over a year).  I use them because they are one of a few (to be honest the only one) who actually have Solaris installers.  The one downside of this is that they do not start the CrashPlanEngine by default (as a service).  However when using the Service Management Framework in Solaris this is really easy to handle yourself…  For more details how to handle the SMF portion refer to my article “

Jan 15, 2013 4:00am

Solaris 11: Defining A Service Using Svcbundle and the SMF

Lately I have been going through an exercise of migrating all of my current services into Solaris 11 (more specifically a zone).  I have already been using similar technology on the Linux side, I use OpenVZ with a mix of Linux distributions.  However I would like to take advantage of ZFS and get a little more simplicity in management.

Jan 14, 2013 4:00am

Friday Tips #10

Happy Friday, everyone, hope you've had a good week! We're very excited to to have reached double digits in our Friday tips series, and we hope you're finding them useful. Remember, you can get your questions answered by posting on Twitter with the #askoraclevirtualization hash tag.

Jan 11, 2013 12:52pm

Oracle VM Disaster Recovery

A lot of my clients ask me about Disaster Recovery in a OVM setup. I hope this new event of oracle gives us some more insight. You can register here. I’ll certainly check it out. The whitepaper the event is based on can be found here.

Jan 11, 2013 12:40am

Hear us talk about BYOD!

Recently, I had the pleasure of spending some time on the phone with John Renko, consulting developer in the desktop virtualization group here at Oracle. You might know him from his fantastic answers to many of our Friday Tips questions.

Jan 08, 2013 12:35pm

Get More From Virtual Machines with Oracle VM Server for x86 Training

Get the most from the efficiency and performance of your virtual machines by taking the Oracle VM Administration: Oracle VM Server for x86 training course.

This three day course teaches students to build a virtualization platform using the Oracle VM Manager and Oracle VM Server for x86. You learn how deploy and manage highly configurable, inter-connected virtual machines. The course teaches how to:

Jan 08, 2013 2:27am

oracle vm template config script example

The programmatic way to extend Oracle VM Template Configure is to build your own module.

To write your own module, you have to build an RPM that contains a configure script in a specific format, let's go through the steps to do this.

Oracle VM template configure works very similar to the init.d and chkconfig script model. For template config we have the /etc/template.d directory, all the scripts go into /etc/template.d/scripts. Then symlinks are made to other subdirectories based on the type of target the scripts provide. At this point we handle configure and cleanup.

Jan 06, 2013 2:45pm

oracle vm messages

Using the Oracle VM Message API for your own applications...

There are two ways to communicate through the APIs, a quick and easy one and a more comprehensive one.

The quick and easy method of just sending and receiving messages.

  • Sending messages using ovm_utils or using the Oracle VM CLI to the VM

    • # ssh admin@localhost -p 10000
admin@localhost's password: 
OVM> sendVmMessage Vm name=ol6u3apitest key=foo message=bar log=no
Command: sendVmMessage Vm name=ol6u3apitest key=foo message=bar log=no
Status: Success
Time: 2012-12-27 09:04:29,890 PST

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