On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 4:25 PM Vinícius Ferrão <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > I’m planning to install Oracle 11g on a VM inside oVirt. I already knew > about the licensing hell of running Oracle 11g on a virtualized environment. > > The question is about snapshotting Oracle 11gb when the VM is running. Is > this supported? Supported by ovirt, not sure that by Oracle :-) > For example, on VMware and XenServer there’s the quiesce option to make > the filesystem, with a little help from the guest agent, to be in an a good > state for snapshots. But in oVirt, how this is handled? If supported, which > operating systems are compatible with the feature? > In ovirt we use libvirt's virDomainFSFreeze[1] and virDomainFSThaw[2] to freeze guest file systems during a snapshot. On the guest side this uses qemu guest agent (which you must install), to run application specific scripts when freezing or thawing the file systems[3]. I guess oracle or someone an provide scripts to hook to qemu-guest-agent, or you can write them yourself base on oracle documentation. [1] https://libvirt.org/html/libvirt-libvirt-domain.html#virDomainFSFreeze [2] https://libvirt.org/html/libvirt-libvirt-domain.html#virDomainFSThaw [3] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/virtualization_deployment_and_administration_guide/sect-using_the_qemu_guest_virtual_machine_agent_protocol_cli-libvirt_commands Nir > > Thanks, > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ > oVirt Code of Conduct: > https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ > List Archives: > https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/3IMJTUIAGEYWS6L2EDQIXUBCJFIFC2YS/ >
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