• Create a directory on the OVS 2.2 server under /OVS/running_pool/NewVmName
• Unzip appliance if needed and put in the /OVS/running_pool/NewVmName
• You should have combination of file extensions like .vmdk .vmsd .vmx .vmxf
• Login to your OVS Manager.
• Goto  Resources / Virtual Machine Images / Import
• Choose ‘Select from Server Pool”
• Your “NewVmName” should be in the listing.
• Import and start
• Done
• Brewskie

• yum install xen
• yum install virt-manager
• run “virt-manager” from command line
• click on “new” and follow prompts for install type (I started with ISO)
• choose memory and cpu (I started with 2048 Ram and 2 cpus)

$ install-path/bin/dsccsetup ads-create

Choose password for Directory Service Manager:directory-service-pwd
Confirm password for Directory Service Manager:directory-service-pwd

Creating DSCC registry...
DSCC Registry has been created successfully

• Create the WAR file for DSCC.

$ install-path/bin/dsccsetup war-file-create Created dscc-war-file-path

• Register the DSCC agent in Common Agent Container.

$install-path/bin/dsccsetup cacao-reg Configuring Cacao… Cacao will listen on port dscc-agent-port

Her is my installation process:

[root@ldap bin]# ./dsccsetup ads-create
Choose password for Directory Service Manager:
Confirm password for Directory Service Manager:
Creating DSCC registry...
DSCC Registry has been created successfully
[root@ldap bin]# ./dsccsetup war-file-create
Created /sw/pkg/dsee7/var/dscc7.war
[root@ldap bin]# ./dsccsetup status
***
DSCC Agent is not registered in Cacao
***
DSCC Registry has been created
Path of DSCC registry is /sw/pkg/dsee7/var/dcc/ads
Port of DSCC registry is 3998
***
[root@ldap bin]# ./dsccsetup cacao-reg
Configuring Cacao...
Cacao will listen on port 21162
Cacao has been successfully configured.
Registering DSCC Agent in Cacao...
Checking Cacao status...
Starting Cacao...
DSCC Agent will use locale en_US.UTF-8 and charset UTF-8
DSCC agent has been successfully registered in Cacao.

Step 1.
Download and install “VMware OVFTOOL 1.0” from the VMware site. You must register to get it.

Step 2.
Unzip your VMware appliance into a directory on your windows or linux machine.

Step 3.
Run the following command to export the vmx file to ovf

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool>ovftool.exe –skipManifestCheck c:\temp\
opsview-appliance\opsview-appliance.vmx c:\temp\john.ova
Opening VMX source: c:\temp\opsview-appliance\opsview-appliance.vmx
Opening OVA target: c:\temp\john.ova
Writing OVA package: c:\temp\john.ova
Disk Transfer Completed

Step 4.
Import the charliebrown.ovf into OVM 3.x as an assembly. Once charlie has been imported create a vm from the template as usual.

Step 5.
Grab a glass of milk and a cookie.

• First ssh to the cygwin box.
• Next download the needed packages for apt-cyg
• ./setup.exe -q -P  wget,tar,qawk,bzip2,subversion,vim
• Finally, download the apt-cyg script from Stephen’s repository.
• $ svn –force export http://apt-cyg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ /bin/
• $ chmod +x /bin/apt-cyg

Now that you have all the tools, just run the “apt-cyg” command to find and install anything from the cygwin repositories.

“apt-cyg install <package names>” to install packages
“apt-cyg remove <package names>” to remove packages
“apt-cyg update” to update setup.ini
“apt-cyg show” to show installed packages
“apt-cyg find <pattern(s)>” to find packages matching patterns
“apt-cyg describe <pattern(s)>” to describe packages matching patterns
“apt-cyg packageof <commands or files>” to locate parent packages

pvcreate /dev/xvdb

Then we extend the existing Volume Group (VG) called VolGroup00.

vgextend VolGroup00 /dev/xvdb

Then we extend the Logical Volume (LV) by the size of the extra disk, in this case 8GB.

lvextend -L8G /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00

Finally we resize the filesystem that uses this LV.

resize2fs /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00

Download the patch from http://support.oracle.com and the patch is called p13036236_30_Linux-x86-64.zip

Unzip and copy the iso to your OVMM machine.

mount -o loop OracleVM-Manager-3.0.x.iso /OVMCD

cd /OVMCD

./runUpgrader.sh

Anyway, you can probably tell I have been at this for some time and frustrated. But here is how you do it.

1. Install new OVM 3.0.1 on new hardware. There is no Software upgrade at all.
2. Go into your OVM 2.x /OVS/running_pool directory and tar up individually your VMs like this

tar -cvzf vm1.tgz vm1/

1. Copy this vm1.tgz file to a running webserver inside your network (WHAT?!! YES!)
2. Once hosted on http://fred.my.lan/vm1.tgz you can import into your OVM 3.0 environment.
3. From the OVM 3.0 Console. Goto “Server Pools” / “Templates” / “Choose Blue Import Template” and add your internal webserver and file location http://fred.my.lan/vm1.tgz
4. When finished you will need to choose “Clone Template to VM” from that same menu on Server Pools.
5. This will just ask you some questions regarding the existin VM make sure you choose Xen PVM and update your network settings if needed, otherwise it won’t let you Clone.

More to come … help me

So must spent another few hours trying to get connected to the VM consoles. They used to have passwords associated with them which were stored in the vm.cfg.  Apparently that hasn’t been fully implemented yet either https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=9899756

1. Connect to your VM through the OVM Manager using Right Click on each VM and choosing “Console”
2. The password is the Weblogic / OVM Server credentials that were entered when server was installed. “admin / whateverpassword”