With SuSE SLES 7 you can use virtual hipersockets and virtual qdio lans
(both), and this is for sure.
Saying goes: Great minds think alike - I say: Great minds think for
themselves!
Carlos A. Ordonez
IBM Corporation
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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 :-)
