It would seem to me that you have all the pieces prereq to running it in a normal way, save the VM license, which you'd have to have in any case. Assuming you get the VM license, and aren't planning on snarfing a copy from a neighbor, why not bring up VM in your LPAR, and run the Linux image you have now beneath it?
---- Robert P. Nix internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mayo Clinic phone: 507-284-0844 200 1st St. SW page: 507-255-3450 Rochester, MN 55905 ---- "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theory and practice are different." > -----Original Message----- > From: Adam Thornton [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 7:06 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Intel PC + Hercules + VM + Linux > > On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 06:39:54PM -0500, Rengasamy, Samy wrote: > > We have been running Linux on a native LPAR for quiet some time. > > We would like to experiment running few instances of Linux under VM. > > But we do not have any budget allocation for this experiment. > > > > I would like to do it with Intel PC + Hercules + VM + Linux. > > > > Is it possible? If so where do I start? > > It is technically possible. > > It is also illegal without some sort of licensing agreement from IBM > allowing you to run VM on your Hercules machine. > > Adam > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "My eyes say their prayers to her / Sailors ring her bell / Like a moth > mistakes a light bulb / For the moon and goes to hell." -- Tom Waits