Yes. Look into a VM feature called Common System Extensions (CSE). It takes some planning to do this, but as long as both VM systems can directly share disks, that's exactly what CSE was designed to do. DIRMAINT has support for syncing user directories in CSE complexes, and if the directory is not on the IPL volume, you can share it between systems.
Warning: this is NOT trivial to set up. It is also not very well documented any longer -- the information is there, but is scattered. There is some discussion of CSE in the CP Planning manual, but you would be well advised to find a copy of Alan Altmark and John Fransicovich's recent presentation on VM clustering techniques from the z/VM Expo or WAVV to explain in more detail what is involved. -- db David Boyes Sine Nomine Associates > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Tim-Chr. Hanschen > Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 8:36 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: synchronizing user directories > > > Hi, > > well, I know that my question is more VM related, that linux > related, but > anyway.... > > I have two VMs and want to run Linux-guests on both of them. > My idea is > that I can start a guest on both sides, so I have to make an > entry in the > user directoies on both VMs... so far, so good. > > Is there a possibility that I only have to make the > appropriate entry once > and that the two user directories are synchronized > automatically? I think > of dirmaint or something else... > > thx.... > > - Tim - >
