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9 Installing and Configuringthe Oracle VM CLI

One might ask why anybody would be interested in a command-line interface (CLI) in this day and age, when we have several great graphical tools to configure and manage Oracle VM. The simple answer is this: scripting. By using the OVM CLI, you can easily generate and reuse scripts to perform many of the day-to-day tasks that you generally repeat with slight variations. In addition, you can automate tasks that involve many steps using the CLI.

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