On Tuesday, 02/20/2007 at 05:02 CET, Rob van der Heij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/20/07, Alan Altmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In z/VM 5.3 you will be able to ATTACH the real hardware VT220 console to > > a guest, enabling you to more easily repair a penguin with a broken wing. > > I trust we're talking about a emulated VT220 console that can be > accessed from the HMC or SE desktop? You need to redefine "easy" for > me then, in the context of z/VM providing the virtual raised floor. > How would I provide one of the Linux admin folks VT220-like access to > their wounded penguin without risking they step on another system? Can > they just telnet into VM without tn3270 support and logon to their > virtual machine to get the effect? Or dial?
Yes, you would have to provide them with access to the HMC's emulated VT220 console. And I didn't say "easy", I said "more easily", under the assumption the some level of access is better than none. I know that you, of course, would create an "emergency recovery CD" Linux image that the Linux admin folk could boot to repair their broken machine, without requiring console access, VT220 or otherwise. :-) Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
