You¹ll find that most z/VM¹ers will use userid, guest, image, and virtual
machine interchangeably. Sometimes in the same paragraph, and possibly in
the same sentence. Sorry; they¹re all just part of the history of the beast.
But yes, if you log off the user, you¹ve ³powered off² the virtual machine.
The ³magic number² on the IPL command that you refer to as <some number> is
really the virtual CCUU of the disk device you¹re IPLing from. CCUU being
the channel and unit number. This number should lead you to a device in the
virtual machine¹s definition, which may be an MDISK or a DEDICATE, and will
then lead you to a real device on your system.
The virtual machines that are defined but not active will only be accurately
listed in the CP Directory. Look through it, and try to eliminate any of the
users that are created by the z/VM installation. What is left will be your
CMS users and your Linux guests. You¹ll have to look at the minidisks of
each individually to decide what they really are.
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On 10/20/07 5:26 AM, "GnanaShekar Subramani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I guess the VM user and Virtual machine / guest os are one and the same.
>
> I was also able to bring up the virtual machine / guest os using the IPL
> commands. I did this because I knew the IPLSYS for the Virtual machine from
> one of my earlier screenshot and was able to IPL with "IPL <some number>
> CLEAR" command.
>
> However I still need to find out details about the virtual machines that are
> defined but not active. and IPL them.
>
