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
> 
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