ODA-VP: How to reset the root password on a Virtual Machine
You have a OEL 6 VM on a ODA Virtualized Platform, and the root password for that VM has become lost. Here are the steps to recover it (created with a little help from the OVM team).
Working solution:
1) Login to oda_base as root.
2) Stop the VM.
--> oakcli stop vm <vmname>
3) Login to dom0 as root.
4) Edit the vm.cfg file for the VM (path name varies from OVM example in 1602157.1)
--> vi /OVS/Repositories/sharedrepo/.ACFS/snaps/<vmname>/VirtualMachines/<vmname>/vm.cfg
5) (as in 1602157.1) For Single User Mode, it is just needed to edit the vm.cfg file and add the below line just after bootloader="/usr/bin/pygrub"