You can have VM emulate those for you. But that is big overhead on the GPs. After assigning specialty engines to our VM LPAR (at a previous employer), the GPs regained quite a bit of the processor, and the real ICF and zIIPs actually Performed better for the guests.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bob Shannon Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 1:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Question concerning Z/VM, Linux and General Processors >I think z/VM mode LPAR can use ICF, but this kind of processor will be used only for Coupling Facility guest system, am I right? Yes. We have an ICF assigned to our primary zVM system. The ICF is used to dispatch virtual coupling facilities.. Bob Shannon Rocket Software ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
