No problem.  Actually, I have and use SWAPGEN, on SLES9 and SLES10, and
they work fine.  This is the first time I have actually tried it on
version 8.

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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Rich Smrcina
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 11:00 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: VDISK and SLES8

Oops... I apparently missed that part of your message.

Typically to use Vdisk swap we use a free utility from Sine Nomine
called SWAPGEN.  It will put a swap signature on the device for you.
All you would need to do in Linux is identify the disk in /etc/fstab as
swap and Linux will use it.

SWAPGEN runs from the PROFILE EXEC and can either create the virtual
disk for you or reuse a virtual disk that was created based on the
directory entry.

Go to www.sinenomine.net and search for SWAPGEN.

Walters, Gene P wrote:
> Yes, I added them to the zipl.conf and ran zipl, then did a mk_initrd
> for good measure.  That's when they at least showed up in the dasd
> devices list, but they still won't show up in Partition manager.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> Rich Smrcina
> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 10:42 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: VDISK and SLES8
>
> Are the device numbers in zipl.conf?
>
> Walters, Gene P wrote:
>> Can V-disk's be used with SLES8?  I have a couple of Linux instances
>> that are still running version 8 of SuSE, and have been trying to get
> it
>> to use V-disk's for swap.  I can get the V-Disk's to show up under
the
>> dasd devices, but Partition manager won't show them on it's list.  Am
> I
>> missing something?
>>
>>
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