> Nice for those with z/VM. I will grant that any serious z/Linux > organization will eventually use z/VM. But, for a "proof of concept", > those facility will not be available.
I'm not sure that's true any longer. Given that IBM has arranged for z/VM to be easily available for POCs, it pretty much just takes a call to your IBM rep or business partner to ask for a copy of VM to play with for POC purposes. If you can get that LPAR, getting VM is just about as easy. You ask, things arrive on your desk. Easy. 8-) Getting a bootable DVD would be cool, but you sure won't run it for real that way, and you'll be a lot happier with the whole virtual machine experience than you ever will be with an LPAR install of Linux. Diskless virtual machines are really kind of interesting. They take viciously fantastic advantage of guest LANs/VSWITCHs, and are really neat if you do a lot of reconfiguration since you never have to deal with zipl (you always get the configuration in the network-attached disk. It's also quite cool to use the technique and the multi-link network aggregation support to interact with iSCSI-based disk. Much less of a PITA than the current fcp support. > Does the z9 HMC have an ftp server > on it so that it can be used as an ftp installation source? If not, that > might be another nice enhancement for IBM to think about. Should be > rather simple since the HMC itself is running Linux. I think it does. The 5.3 DVD install uses something to transfer the disk images from the HMC drive; I think it is FTP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
