Andrew Wiley wrote:
Andrew,
Unless you already have a release of VM on this hardware, you can't get
a VM that will run on this hardware anymore. So you are pretty much out
of luck.
IBM does have an academic initiative which provides incentives for
higher education on System z:
Well, this is a high school computer science course, so we don't have
much budget and, quite frankly, we aren't a priority in... anything.
However, the machine I'm investigating is being offered by a local
business that's decommissioning it, and I can ask if they plan to
include VM.
Assuming they do, could the machine be useful? It wouldn't be used
under high load; it would be hosting student projects.
It's 31-bit, so recent SLES and RHEL don't run on it because those are
64-bit. Debian probably does, and Slack might.
This might be a time when, depending on just what you want, a nice HP
DC5850[1] (desktop PC) might win out. They're 64-bit (we have AMD
processors in ours), they support 8 Gbytes of RAM, run the latest Fedora
and openSUSE, and you can use virtualisation.
It's not a mainframe by any means, but finding someone who knows the
software is pretty simple (no VM gurus needed), and it's a setup the
kids can replicate at home if they wish (and can afford a newish pc).
If you particularly want to run Linux/390, that's possible too. Just
install Hercules - it's probably in the software repo.
1 I mention this just because I have personal knowledge of them.
Probably, other vendors have something equivalent. One of the things I
like about these is the diagnostics DVD. It boots Linux, so I figured
the chances of running recent Linux is probably feasible. It is, unlike
the DC7700 when new.
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Cheers
John
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