> --- 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?
Technically, you could run PPC binaries within Linux by using PearPC to emulate the instruction set and the CHRP environment, but you would not have any device drivers in AIX to manage disk, console, network, etc, so your PPC AIX kernel wouldn't get very far before going up in a 900 megaton fireball. It also would be extremely slow. Now, if IBM wanted to change that, the task of writing a console, network and disk driver for AIX is not impossible, but you'd have to do the build of the rest of the AIX source on System Z, and IBM would need to do that, or contract someone to do so. I have some more ideas about efficient processor type emulation on Z, but those would require some serious cooperation from IBM to implement. Might not be a bad idea if IBM intends AIX to survive; there are some good things in it that would be worth preserving. The AIX JFS implementation is very well done and well integrated. On the other hand, a gentle death in favor of Linux or Solaris wouldn't be awful either. There's little value in a vanity closed-source Unix implementation these days -- differentiation for it's own sake isn't very profitable.
