Romney was with another outfit before VM/CMS Unlimited. For some reason the name Gerald Depass jumps out at me. Perhaps Romney can clear up all doubt.
____________________ Jim Hughes 603-271-5586 "It is fun to do the impossible." ==>-----Original Message----- ==>From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On ==>Behalf Of Schuh, Richard ==>Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 4:56 PM ==>To: [email protected] ==>Subject: Re: z/VM 6.1 G.A. targeted for this Friday, Oct 23 ==> ==>That Company was VM/CMS Unlimited, IIRC. ==> ==>Regards, ==>Richard Schuh ==> ==> ==> ==>> -----Original Message----- ==>> From: The IBM z/VM Operating System ==>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Boyes ==>> Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 1:43 PM ==>> To: [email protected] ==>> Subject: Re: z/VM 6.1 G.A. targeted for this Friday, Oct 23 ==>> ==>> On 10/22/09 4:03 PM, "Stephen Frazier" <[email protected]> wrote: ==>> ==>> > On VMware you can move a running virtual machine from one ==>> ESX machine ==>> > to another without the operating systems running on the virtual ==>> > machine knowing it. ==>> > There are many good ideas from zVM that have been copied by VMware. ==>> > This is an example going the other way - zVM is using a VMware idea. ==>> > Both VMware and zVM developers will tell you that they ==>> don't get ideas ==>> > from the other - but as an administrator of both systems I can see ==>> > what is happening. ==>> > Same thing different names - a minidisk on zVM is a vmdk on ==>> VMware. A ==>> > vSwitch on VMware is ... ==>> > Now zVM is adding vmotion from VMware, so they call it ==>> Single System Image. ==>> ==>> It's a little older than that. In the VM/SP and HPO days, ==>> there was a VM/SSI add-on from a 3rd party company. It ==>> implemented a truly enormous number of CP mods to allow ==>> virtual machines to move between a group of physical systems ==>> with the SWITCH command. Worked extremely well, till VM/XA ==>> came along. ==>>
