Installing Oracle VM 2.1.5

Here are my experience for installing Oracle VM 2.1.5 on my PC. Oracle VM has 2 components:

1. Oracle VM server
2. Oracle VM manager

To install Oracle VM server, follow the following steps:

1. Download the compressed binary CD image (you must register for free download). Download Oracle VM server from Oracle eDelivery. You do not need to download Oracle VM server source disc to install Oracle VM server, this CD only contain the source code.
2. Uncompress the CD image
3. Write the CD image to CD. Use your favorite cd burning software to write this image directly to CD. Do not write the image file to the CD. To test if you have burned the image correctly, insert a burned cd and ensure that multiple files and directories are visible.
4. Insert the cd, and boot. Lastly, insert the disk into your system, boot from CD, and follow the on-screen instructions to deploy Oracle VM server!

To install Oracle VM manager, follow the following steps:

1. Download the compressed binary CD image. Download Oracle VM manager from Oracle eDelivery.
2. Uncompress the CD image.
   
3. Write the CD image to CD. Use your favorite cd burning software to write this image directly to CD. Do not write the image file to the CD. To test if you have burned the image correctly, insert a burned cd and ensure that multiple files and directories are visible.
4. Installation. If you burned the Oracle VM Manager ISO image onto CD, insert the CD into your cd-rom and mount it

   # mount /dev/cdrom /mnt

   if using the Oracle VM Manager ISO image to install, mount iso image

   # mount -o loop, ro OracleVM-manager.iso /mnt

   Start the installation

   # cd /mnt
   # sh ./runInstaller.sh

   and follow the instructions on the screen. For testing and getting familiar with the product, we suggest you accept the defaults values and change them afterwards.

That's it....