So according to the statements below...I CAN use SUSE SLES7 to play the guest lan game, using QDIO instead of virtual hipersockets? Am I correct in this assumption? Any testimony from someone who has setup guest lans with SUSE SLES7? Tia Dave Myers
Adam said... Now, you're using SuSE, so that may be a stumbling block too.� IIRC, the totally-free version (beer, not speech, for those of you keeping score at home) of SuSE doesn't do HiperSockets.� But if you have either the $500 trial or a support contract then you have access to the service releases, which do let you use HiperSockets.� And if you don't, then (IMHO) you shouldn't be using SuSE--if you're going to be your own support, you may as well be your own support with a less antiquated Rober said... No hardware hipersockets doesn't necessarily mean that you can't use the guest LAN.� Are you using the evaluation version of SuSE 7.2 or are you using the old SuSE with the 2.2.16 kernel?� If the former you can define a guest LAN and set up SuSE to use it.� If the latter, then you are definitely stuck using point to point. Carlos said: I think that as long as your distribution of Linux supports QDIO (which 2.2.16 does) you can define a "qdio" (instead of a "hipers" one) guest lan under zVM 4.3 and use qdio/qeth. (I think! haven't tried it) Carlos :-)
