On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Post, Mark K wrote:

> It is absolutely feasible, and one way to ensure some consistency (sort of).
> Marist College writes a Linux/390 kernel to the 191 disk of their guests,
> which punch it to the reader and IPL from it when the guests get logged on.
>

So, for the sake of (say) 4 Mbytes of disk shared by everyone, you could
have a recovery system instantly accessble to all your 40,000 virtual
machines?

Seems a fine way to go;-)



> Mark Post
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Summerfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 2:43 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Problem: DIAG vs ECKD - Yast hangs
>
>
> On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, James Peddycord wrote:
>
> > I will give that a shot, but now I am worried about bigger things! PAV was
> > turned on to ALL of our DASD last December. The linux instances that were
> > already running seem to be OK, but if a problem arises I will be left with
> > no support.
> > All of my boot disks have PAV enabled!
> > This looks like something to run up the IBM support ladder, because I
> think
> > that it is a priority to have the drivers updated for PAV.
>
> Is it feasible to IPL from (virtual) tape?
>

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Cheers
John.

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