Currently running RH 7.2 in lpar mode (kernel: 2.4.9-37tape). We may be getting z/VM in the future, which we've never used before. At least at first look at the Building Linux Systems under IBM VM book, I'm confused about the concept of minidisks. Do 3390 volumes have to be formatted any differently in the z/VM enviroment than they would for a linux image running LPAR mode? I guess what I'm asking is, apart from networking stuff, can I expect to be able to define existing linux dasd volumes to z/VM, login the guest and have the image boot? Or will I have to go through some process to migrating the data to the minidisks so that they work under z/VM?
Sorry if the question doesn't make much sense, I'm still trying to get my head around this stuff. Any pointers are appreciated. ~ Daniel
