Their paper Xen and the Art of Virtualization specifically mentions VM/370 in page 12.
This sounds neat, especially with EMC buying VMware. Love to have a space server to play with this. Dave > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 7:25 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [LINUX-390] VM for x86 project > > > I have just bumped into something that may be of interest to the list. > > "Xen is a virtual machine monitor for x86 that supports execution of > multiple guest operating systems with unprecedented levels of > performance and resource isolation." > > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/index.html > > Which is part of a larger project: > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xeno/ > > In their own words: > > "The Xenoserver project is building a public infrastructure for > wide-area distributed computing. [...] > > This wide-ranging project has two main strands of work: > > * Development of the Xen virtual machine monitor, a > high-performance > hypervisor for hosting multiple commodity operating systems > on a single > x86-based server. This forms the core of each Xenoserver > node, providing > the resource management, accounting and auditing that we require. Xen > finds numerous applications outside the Xenoserver project. > These inclue > server consolidation and secure computing platforms. > > * Development of the Xenoserver Open Platform control software for > managing networks of Xenoservers. Our research includes distributed > storage, server discovery, resource management and authentication, > authorization and accounting (AAA) functions. This work finds > relevance > to Grid computing and to globally distributed testbeds such as > PlanetLab. " > > > I skimmed a couple of their papers and they specifically mention S/390 > and zArch LPARs as an example of virtualization technology > but I didn't > find any referece to z/VM. > > -jmc >
