On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 12:16 -0500, Rich Smrcina wrote: > > That is something that I thought was very interesting. It is not as > > necessary on a single z. But it would be wonderful if a multi-CEC > > environment could transparently move a guest from a z/VM on one system to a > > z/VM on a different system without the necessity of any kind of an outage. > > Now that would be NICE! > > An early prototype of this sort of technology has been demonstrated at the > last few SHAREs.
I haven't had the benefit of attending any of those sessions, but my understanding of this was it was limited to a single CEC (been a while since I chased it up though). z/VM is after all intrinsically welded to the (proprietary) hardware. Everybody out in user land wants to be able to (live) migrate across machines - preferably across sites. Even across the country. I can think of some serious show-stoppers, even from a users perspective - hiper-sockets for one .... When (if) a zSeries KVM kernel module appears, z/VM is no longer an absolute requirement for zLinux virtualization. Must be exercising (more than) a few very smart minds I'd imagine. On both sides of the fence. Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
