They work fine once I manually attach them.  I’m looking for the magic to have 
z/VM IPL, the guests come up and immediately have access to the devices without 
manually intervention.  I can hack my way through z/VM but I’m not expert in 
that space.

-- 
Matt Hogstrom

“To achieve great things two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough 
time.”
- Leonard Bernstein

> On Dec 6, 2024, at 10:14, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Full pack minidisks worked fine for me in VM/SE (SEPP); I see no reason why 
> they wouldn't work in z/VM.
> 
> -- 
> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
> http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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> 
> 
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> Subject: z/OS Devices under z/VM
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> 
> I have a z/VM system where I’m running three guests in a SYSPLEX.  I added 
> some DASD that is shared across the three guests (this is all running in ZD&T 
> which I don’t think is relevant).  I can access the devices if I ATTach them 
> to the z/os guests but that is a manual process.  All the other DASD for the 
> systems is automatically picked up.
> 
> Is there a mechanism in z/VM that I need to do outside the directory to 
> automatically connect the new devices to the guests.  After a guest logs out 
> and then subsequently re-ipl’d I need to re-attach the devices.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> --
> Matt Hogstrom
> 
> “To achieve great things two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough 
> time.”
> - Leonard Bernstein
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