Unless someone proves #2 is going to do really wonderful things, most of us 
probably won't bother upgrading.   We'll save our energy for the next one which 
should be lots more interesting.

Folks just starting out of course should do 6.1.

Marcy 

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-----Original Message-----
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of Alan Ackerman
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 11:43 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [IBMVM] z/VM 6.1 G.A. targeted for this Friday, Oct 23

>The only z/VM 6.1 only items I found were:
>
>1. Limited to z10 only
>2. Prefetch guest data into processor cache
>3. Closer integration with IBM Systems Director

So if that's all there is, why would anyone bother to install z/VM 6.1? =


Alan Ackerman
Alan (dot) Ackerman (at) Bank of America (dot) com 

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