--- legolas wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > Thank you for reading my post > Is it possible to install AIX 5.3 or 5.2 in z/VM? > > Thanks. >
As some one else already said, NO. As the film says long ago and far away in a distant galaxy there was a version of AIX that ran on ESA/370 Architecture, but alas it is long since withdrawn from marketing, support, and possibly totally lost the world, as is CP47, MTS, Edgar. These days if you want a "Unix"(TM) environment you can either use what I think are called "OpenExtensions for z/VM" or "OpenVM" for short which gives you access to a POSIX complaint subsystem within VM, I guess in a similar way to which you used to get OS/2 support in NT, or DOS support in VM. This is an EBCDIC environment. Alternatively you can IPL Linux in a zVM VM, which I guess is the way most folks are going. Note that whilst the base code is the same as Intel LINUX, the system needs to be built for the zArchitecture which evolved from 370/XA/ESA architectures resulting in zLinux. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_on_zSeries Seems to have a good overview which is mostly factual. I did try searching the IBM web site for a general intro page, but gave up. Its not very good at reading my mind as to what is relevant... Hope this helps Dave. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
