On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 06:15:00PM -0500, Richard Troth wrote: > Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 18:15:00 -0500 > From: Richard Troth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: z/VM and VMware > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Has anyone done any correlation between VMware and z/VM? > I mean ... concepts. We had a list some time back, FREEVM-L, > where we discussed a spec (no code, just the high-level stuff) > for a common hypervisor design. could you provide me a pointer to FREEVM-L ? Google came back with FREEDOM-L, which pointed to http://www.ronthemusicmaker.org/free.htm (which didn't quite fit the picture I had envisioned ;-)
> > Imagine if Linux-on-VMware could do something like > > hcp attach cdrom [to] guest37 cdrom > > So the question is, have any in the group written down anything > that they could share with the public? Sorry about the late reply ... I still have a daytime job ... Not that I know of at the moment, but I'd suggest raising the issue with the "P-Series" people as well. (AIX LPAR's, such as the Regatta Boxen I use at work) I have yet to meet an IBM P-Series person who knows what I'm talking about when I talk about Timer-Ticks in the S390 world. This seems to be radical NewThink for them ;-( They were recommending running one instance of xntpd per partition so that each individual instance would argue with the others about who had the the purest jitterfree _real_ time. (In the same cage even). There appears to be very little awareness of the "Virtual Machine" issues in groups other than this, the UserModeLinux (UML) people, or possibly also the Herculeans. As an offside remark, I would like to see the VM-evangelist people realising that the VM world has a lot to share with the unwashed masses who are completely unaware of the advantages of resource-virtualisation. This applies not only to /390, but also to P-Series and Intel/AMD and UML. I see it as a chance for VM to come out of the woodwork and say "look what we've been doing these last few decades". > -- R; Richard -- Vegetarians eat vegetables. That's OK. It's the Humanitarians I'm worried about. Have a nice day ;-) Richard Higson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
