----- Start Original Message ----- Sent: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:55:40 -0500 From: Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>The beauty of z/VM is getting all the V-Lans, V-Routers, and V-Firewalls you want for nothing and then all that V-Cabling running at memory speeds and also Hypersockets for LPAR connections.End Original Message ----- Just playing Devil's Advocate here....... No one has mentioned that Virtualization (i.e. z/VM) is no longer limited (or costly) on Intel. Big Intel servers can now be virtualized using software such as: OpenVZ - see http://www.openvz.org Xen - see http://www.xensource.com UML - see http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net and yes of course even: VMWARE - see http://www.vmware.com Note that IBM is even funding virtualization projects, with a view to not only better Intel support, but support for its POWER platforms as well. Wouldn't it be interesting to compare z9 + z/VM + z/Linux to a virtualized Intel (or POWER) configuration? Mark ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
