You seem to be comparing Windows on Vmware with Linux on the 390 rather than Linux on both ?
VMware certainly has some limits because unlike the 390 it is trying to emulate commodity hardware not designed for virtualisation on commodity hardware. That means they have to do some truely remarkable things to get passable performance. Paravirtualisers[1] like Xen don't have this overhead but can't run unmodified PC OS's. With a paravirtualised environment you can take a PC virtualised to over 95% of native performance. Alan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
