Friday, March 16, 2012

How create a virtual machine on Oracle VM 3.0.3: step 3

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step 1
step 2


As boot option select only network, while on the Network Boot Path type your http server (you can use also an ftp server as you prefer) were you have unzipped your distribution (in my case it was Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 update 7 x86_64). Clicking on Finish button
.. you can see a job is submitted and its status will complete soon.
Now as you can see you have a virtual machine available on you server pool (with still nothing inside). Select that virtual machine and then press the green play button

A new job will start
And after it completes...
... you can right click on virtual machine and select "Launch Console" icon
A jnlp will be downloaded (called ovm_rasproxy-ws.jnlp). Just open it and ...
... it will lauch your vnc session. Those steps worked for me only on a Windows machine after I've updated my Java installation to the last available (Version 6 Update 31 in my case), after I have installed UltraVNC free edition and only using Chrome browser (it failed on IE7 and 8). Just select your language.
Select your keyboard type

It will continue on next step.