I haven't tried it yet (keep meaning to get around to it), but I believe it's really only useful for Linux.
But if you're focusing on a comparison of Linux-on-Intel to Linux-on-zSeries, that's not an issue, it's still apples-to-apples. I don't know about kernel-level compatibility, but I do know it presents a "virtual" network adapter to the guest OS, and a driver is needed to talk to that. > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Adam Thornton > Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 3:38 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Why Zseries > > > On Feb 10, 2005, at 2:33 PM, Hall, Ken (IDS DCS PE) wrote: > > > How about Xen? IBM seems to be starting to push it as a > > virtualization technology on Intel. > > > From where I sit, the big drawback of Xen is that it > requires a port of > each OS to it; that is, it doesn't quite transparently virtualize the > hardware. > > Adam > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > -------------------------------------------------------- If you are not an intended recipient of this e-mail, please notify the sender, delete it and do not read, act upon, print, disclose, copy, retain or redistribute it. Click here for important additional terms relating to this e-mail. http://www.ml.com/email_terms/ -------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
