On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 16:57, Eric Sammons wrote:

My EUR 0.01

> The first issue is vt100 support from a VM console session.

Quite often even that is tedious since I want network access as well
(e.g. pick up a new package from somewhere - mind you, not floppies) and
maybe even outside its normal network configuration. The reason people
settle for local console is that they're used to not having more than
that.
With z/VM you can simply have one of your trusted Linux servers link to
the disks in write mode (when the owner is dead) and do all changes and
modifications that you need to fix the problem. You then unmount the
disks and start the server again.

> The second primary issue is the lack of a syslinux or the ability to boot

I suspect this is the same issue, but right now you can already have
patches that allow you to select the kernel parameters throuh LOADPARM
on the IPL statement, and more is coming later.

Rob

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