On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 00:22 +0200, Lindy Mayfield wrote: > Does that mean that potentially that 1 mainframe has the equivalent of > at least 130 network cards? I can see how most of the hardware is > virtualized, but the networking I don't quite see, yet. How does that > part work?
As an option to communicating through an OSA, virtual machines can also communicate via so-called "hipersockets" -- which are in essence OSA emulators written in firmware. The TCP/IP stacks on your 130 virtual machines can communicate among themselves at very high data rates without actually putting data "on the wire". -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
