Oracle VM Templates for OEBS Release 12.1.3 Vision Media - missing files

Question

I downloaded all 11 parts ( 8 - DB and 3 - APPS) for this media pack template - Oracle VM Templates for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3 Vision Media.
Per the media pack README I unzipped each file and and then concatenated (and gunzipped) them into directories for DB and APPS respectively. According to the media pack README there should be README.txt and System.img files in each directory in addition to the template .img file and vm.cfg files. Neither directory contains README.txt or System.img files, and only the APPS directory contains a vm.cfg file. Both directories do include a template .img file.
# ls -l OVM_OL5U6_X86_64_EBIZ12.1.3_DB_VIS_PVM
total 48004528
-rw-------. 1 root root 49156626432 Apr 16 17:17 ebs1211db.img
# ls -l OVM_OL5U6_X86_64_EBIZ12.1.3_APPS_VIS_PVM
total 16065672
-rw-------. 1 root root 16451237888 Apr 17 08:35 ebs1211apps.img
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 448 Feb 24 2011 vm.cfg
When I put each directory into a tar ball and attempt to import either template, they fail with an error message indicating the System.img does not exist...because it doesn't.
Are the README.txt and System.img files missing from the template,? Do i need to download the template again?
Any insight and assistance is appreciated.
Thank you,
Phil
Edited by: PhilS on Apr 18, 2012 10:36 AM

Answer 1

PhilS wrote:
I answered my question and/or discovered the issue. To get the Oracle VM Template (8 parts) in question to the server where there was space to extract them, I had to copy them between servers. The first time I copied them I did it via an NFS mount and apparently some corruption resulted causing the template to not import successfully. I deleted the template parts from the destination server and Hi Phil, Can you please explain how you managed to import the files once after copying to the destination? ie, until now I was using FTP to download the templates(which are in .tgz format)
copied them a second time via scp. This time the files were intact and the template imported successfully to the OVM Manager. Issue resolved.I am kind of a beginner with Oracle VM environment and completely lost with making it easier to import the templates. I mean, following the readme.txt I unzipped the files, which created the four files for application and database tiers and then I used to tar repack them (following a suggestion received from another thread) and then imported them through a FTP session
The entire activity took almost two and half days, when an alternative method as what you mentioned looks quite feasible to implement, especially while dealing with large templates like the ones for E-Business suite. Hence please answer the following:
What do you mean by secure copying to target file. Does it mean you copied the template elements to a particular folder with VM Server?
Once after copying the files using secure copy, how did you import them?
What is your VM environment? A lot of things have changed with VM Server 3.1.1, the OVS/seed_pool structure is not any further available and the template import has been restricted to http, https or FTP sessions.
Please supply the details, if possible
regards,
raj