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Oracle VM LifecycleManagement

Oracle VM lifecycle management describes the change in state of the virtual machine—from creation to destruction and every state in between. For example, the lifecycle of a virtual machine starts with the machine being built and then continues with it being started, suspended, resumed, stopped, and eventually deleted. Within the lifecycle of a virtual machine are four major states—nonexistent, stopped, running, and suspended—and a virtual machine can transition between these states, as this chapter describes. Also, various tasks take place within these states, and the transitions that can be made vary according ...

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