On Jan 5, 2006, at 8:07 AM, Kielek, Samuel wrote:

Rick, I have never actually tested this, but vmware ESX runs
directly on
the hardware (no host OS required)

Actually, it's running on top of a stripped-down Red Hat.

and may be able to run an instance of
vmware as a guest. I'm struggling to come up with a reason why this
would be a useful thing to do however..

For testing and DR purposes, one presumes, just like running z/VM
second-level.

Of course, getting a whole xSeries all to yourself for testing is a
lot easier than getting a whole zSeries LPAR.

Adam

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