Oracle VM Templates

Easier...Faster...Lower Cost...Fully Supported for Production Deployments

Oracle VM Templates provide an innovative approach to deploying a fully configured software stack by offering pre-installed and pre-configured software images. Use of Oracle VM Templates eliminates the installation and configuration costs, and reduces the ongoing maintenance costs helping organizations achieve faster time to market and lower cost of operations. Oracle VM Templates of many key Oracle products are available for download, including Oracle Database, Enterprise Linux, Fusion Middleware, and many more; see the complete list below.

• White Paper: Creating and Using Oracle VM Templates - The Fastest Way to Deploy Any Enterprise Software (PDF)
• Oracle VM Template Developer's Guide: Creating Pre-Built VMs for Rapid Software Deployment (PDF)
• Oracle VM: Technical Product Information, Specifications, and Features
• Oracle VM Wiki: News and Resources about Oracle VM
  

Oracle Enterprise Linux JeOS
We provide a pre-packaged, small foot-print Oracle Enterprise Linux image for x86 and x86-64, along with a script to customize the image. This minimal install of Oracle Enterprise Linux is also known as JeOS (Just Enough OS, see JeOS readme). It's the same Oracle Enterprise Linux that is freely re-distributable and backed by enterprise-class support, but has been secured and minimized to facilitate Oracle VM Templates creation. With Oracle Enterprise Linux JeOS, developers and ISVs can put their applications on top of a small footprint, enterprise operating system and build a full stack virtual machine or Oracle VM Template. Developers and ISVs: Get your free download and learn more about the benefits of Oracle Enterprise Linux JeOS.

Oracle VM Template Builder
Oracle VM Template Builder, an open source, graphical utility that makes it easy to use Oracle Enterprise Linux “Just enough OS” (JeOS)–based scripts for developing pre-packaged virtual machines for Oracle VM. Now, end-users and ISVs have the option to develop their Oracle VM Templates by using these JeOS-based scripts directly or via the graphical Oracle VM Template Builder. Oracle VM Template Builder uses “JeOS” to facilitate building an operating system instance with only the absolute minimum packages needed for an Oracle VM Template, helping to reduce the disk footprint by up to 2GB or more per guest virtual machine, and to improve security and reliability. Oracle VM Template Builder is not only distributed as software packages via the Oracle Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN) and Oracle's public yum repository, but also distributed as an Oracle VM Template that you can download from Oracle e-delivery site.