Oracle VM Manager: About Managing Repositories

Here we will explore the possibilities of managing Oracle VM repositories.

What are exactly Oracle VM repositories

A repository is used for live migrations of VMs and local storage. They are normally found under:

/etc/ovs/repositories

Adding or removing the repository can be done by firing up the ovs-makerepo script and ovs-offlinerepo script respectively.

Oracle VM Agent does a fine job of managing these repositories but feel free to manually manage them with the following commands.

/etc/init.d/ovsrepositories [start|stop|restart|reload].

To understand more about the format click --help to get more information.

Adding and removing a repository

To add a repository use the following command:

/usr/lib/ovs/ovs-makerepo source shared description

See the upcoming screenshot for the commands and the descriptions of the flags.

For removing a repository carry out the following actions:

/usr/lib/ovs/ovs-offlinerepo [-d] uuid source

The ovs-offlinerepo script unmounts the repository and removes it from the configuration.