That's an interesting idea.. I guess ideally I'm looking for something that IPLs a starter system from DVD with enough smarts to restore DDR images that are on the DVD to DASD. That would sure be a slick way to bring up a new z10 with an already customized, configured, etc zVM system - just like you would with tape/DDR. You dump the starter system along with your images to DVD (made bootable of course) .. boot it - answer a prompt for DASD addresses or what not - and sit back while your already built z/VM installs.
I'm getting the feeling there's nothing that's gonna do this short of doing an install of z/VM and then perhaps uploading/restoring images :-( Scott On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Bruce Hayden <[email protected]> wrote: > The z/VM evaluation edition is a fully functional and customizable z/VM > system that boots from DVD. It requires a z10 though. This usage is > probably not covered by the licensing terms and conditions - but I'm not > going to be the judge of that! Using it this way came up another time in a > discussion I was having with some people - it is an interesting thought on > how a tapeless system could be supported. > > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Scott Rohling <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Gotcha - have done the same thing and it's very handy... but - I'm >> looking for a solution that doesn't require a running z/VM system.. I >> want to restore the z/VM system from the DVD - much as when you do a z/VM >> install (which I assume does some type of image restore from images on the >> DVD?) ... >> >> Scott >> >> > -- > Bruce Hayden > Linux on System z Advanced Technical Support > IBM, Endicott, NY >
