Re: New version of SWAPGEN available

2004-06-25 Thread James Melin
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Re: New version of SWAPGEN available

2004-06-25 Thread Dave Jones
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Re: New version of SWAPGEN available

2004-06-25 Thread James Melin
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Re: New version of SWAPGEN available

2004-06-25 Thread Ronald Van Der Laan
Dave Jones wrote on 25-06-2004 15:48:32: K. I've just gotten to the point where our VM guy is going to finally let me USE vdisk for swap (took much convincing) and he assigned that device at dev 300. swapgen not withstanding, I've been unable to get linux to recognize the device. I've tried

Re: New version of SWAPGEN available

2004-06-25 Thread Adam Thornton
On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 08:12, James Melin wrote: So this swapgen utility makes the V-Disk linux ready? Does that mean it's formatted as swap? What do you do then within in the Linux guest to use the device as swap? Yes. It is formatted as swap. Within the Linux guest you then do (presuming

Re: New version of SWAPGEN available

2004-06-25 Thread Adam Thornton
On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 08:48, James Melin wrote: K. I've just gotten to the point where our VM guy is going to finally let me USE vdisk for swap (took much convincing) and he assigned that device at dev 300. swapgen not withstanding, I've been unable to get linux to recognize the device. I've

Re: New version of SWAPGEN available

2004-06-25 Thread Michael MacIsaac
James, With help from Don Robbins and others I wrote up using VDISK swap with the SWAPGEN EXEC in the Domino on zLinux (tm) redbook: http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/sg247021.html?Open Section 6.6.2 I believe. -Mike MacIsaac, IBM mikemac at us.ibm.com (845)

Re: New version of SWAPGEN available

2004-06-25 Thread Loren Charnley, Jr.
Engineer Family Dollar Stores, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (704) 847-6961 x 2000 -Original Message- From: James Melin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 9:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New version of SWAPGEN available K. I've just gotten to the point where our VM

New version of SWAPGEN available

2004-06-24 Thread Adam Thornton
Version 5 of SWAPGEN is now available from http://www.sinenomine.net/downloads It's pretty much the same as version 4, but there's a new option: REUSE If your system policy doesn't allow your guests to define their own VDISKs, but instead mandates that they be present in the directory entry, you