Hugo, The trick does QEMU (http://www.nongnu.org/qemu/). All other virtualisation options that are currently available do not provide you with X86 architecture on z/Series.
I tried Windows 2003 Server to install and this was working. Depending on which z/Series machine you have, the emulation is quite slow. I used a z/990. The installation took me about 8 hours but finally it was working. The LPAR was running under z/VM with 2 IFL processors. During installation one IFL was nearly fully busy. So you see that QEMU needs a lot of processing power. Would be nice to see how a z/10 is performing with QEMU. I checked it with version 0.9.1 which had some compiling dependencies on gcc 3.4.x I think this limitation is now lifted with the new version of QEMU. As Linux I used DEBIAN for s/390. Of course the more promissing thing is z/VOS. I am looking forward eagerly to try this but I don't think it is available yet. Best regards, Florian On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Hugo Luis Vitelli <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi guys .. I'm going to ask a question half crazy but I want to know if > you can virtualize Windows on a Linux on z / VM and if any place any > evidence of this. > Thanks > > Hugo Luis Vitelli > ------------------------------------------------ > Mainframe Server Management > System Support - Solutions Delivery > IBM Global Services SSA > Hipolito Yrigoyen 2149 ? CP (B1640HFQ) > Modulo ?A? - Martinez ? Pcia Bs. As. - Argentina > Mail.: [email protected] > Phone.: 54 11 4898-4898 int. 3485 > Fax 54 11 4898-4700 > ------------------------------------------------ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > -- Best regards Florian Bilek ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
