Kirk Wolf writes: >Very nice idea. UML under z/OS would be cool. Agreed. I think it could be done and the reward-effort ratio would be relatively high. Before anybody asks, and speaking only for myself as always, I would imagine it would be extremely difficult for IBM to do something like this at least for several non-technical reasons.
Installation and maintenance of the UML image is different than conventional Linux installation, it should be noted. But if the s390x branch with UML extensions became sufficiently mature presumably Novell and/or Red Hat would pick it up and package accordingly. And you could have multiple zUML revisions running concurrently, each in its own z/OS-hosted playpen. :-) Co:Z would be an interesting interaction model to replicate. Not reinventing the wheel is probably a good idea here. >A joke once told to me by an old IBMer : >- "programmers" write code >- "architects" talk about writing code >- "methodologists" talk about talking about writing code Too true! I have a single Linux kernel patch to my name -- and a pretty darn simple one -- so for these purposes I'm not much in the first category. If (when?) anybody attempts this, I think the important part is to keep it real simple to start and add refinements over time. Stick with a single eth0 TCP/IP-only network interface, 2 GB of address space or less, and don't even worry about disk storage initially. (Use a read only /boot image and a RAM disk; NFS should work over fine eth0 if the network part is running.) I wouldn't worry about console output either initially: just SSH into the zUML image over the network. If someone gets that far, the rest is possible. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan / 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
