In an Oracle Linux KVM deployment, you need to back up the KVM host and the guests. You can shut down a guest from within a KVM host.
Shutting Down a User Domain From Within the User Domain.You can enable and disable this feature as needed. Managing Automatic Startup of Oracle Linux KVM Guestsīy default, when you create a guest, it is configured to automatically start when the KVM host is started.To see Oracle Linux boot messages during guest startup, use the -console option with the vm_maker -start-domain command. Monitoring a Guest Console During Startup.
Use this procedure to boot a guest using the diagnostic ISO file ( diagnostics.iso). You can start a guest manually, or configure the guest to start automatically when the KVM host is started. Use the vm_maker utility to list the running domains. You can move an existing Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) cluster into a virtual environment that is managed by KVM.
When deploying Oracle Exadata Database Machine X8M-2 or later, you can decide to implement Oracle Linux KVM on the database servers.
