>> The problem is that within the linux guest there is no corresponding >> device such as /dev/mnd? or /dev/dasd?. We are running SLES8 under VM >> 4.3, has anyone tried this?
> Near as I can tell, SLES8 does not contain an mdisk= kernel parameter, or > the mdisk driver. What SLES8 does have is the DIAG and FBA drivers that can > use VDISK. If you are running in 64-bit mode, the DIAG driver won't work > unless you patch it (see below), but the FBA drivers works just fine. > You should head over to http://www.sinenomine.net/downloads/ and grab the > SWAPGEN EXEC. It is THE easiest way to create and initialize swap disks. > You don't even have to do the mkswap after booting. Instructions for its > use are in the EXEC. Got it, but struggling with the RXDASD part. Not, sure what we are doing wrong but I have had two different MVS people help me and we are getting the following: PIPE < RXDASD VMARC A | fblock 80 00 | > RXDASD1 VMARC A F 80 Ready; T=0.01/0.01 10:38:50 VMARC UNPK RXDASD1 VMARC A * * A No archive members found in RXDASD1 VMARC A1. Ready; T=0.02/0.02 10:38:58 We know we have a working VMARC module because we are able to unpack the VMARC.VMARC file and do get all the source files correctly. -- john
