IBM has posted details and the download for the z/VM 5.3 Evaluation Edition here:
http://www.vm.ibm.com/eval/ Here are the highlights: 1. You can download z/VM 5.3 EE at no charge. 2. You can run it on any System z10 machine.. 3. There's no capacity cap, and you can run it on either/both CPs and IFLs, on any number of machines. 4. You're licensed for 90 days, but there's no "time bomb" that would cause z/VM EE to stop. 5. No support -- you cannot open PMRs, etc. -- nor can you apply PTFs. (It's not for production use.). 6. It's got a fairly rich set of z/VM options included (e.g. the Performance Toolkit). If you download z/VM, you'll need to burn it to a DVD-RAM disc, so make sure you can do that on your PC. Many DVD burners support DVD-RAM discs, but not all. If yours doesn't, fortunately DVD-RAM burners are cheap and plentiful. Anyway, for those of you who'd like to give z/VM a try -- for running Linux or any other mainframe operating system -- you're good to go. The files are available for download now. Enjoy. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Specializing in Software Architectures Related to System z Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan and IBM Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
