Yep. Works great! I got the best results with 'dd' to/from the PUN/RDR device, but results were not consistent when I switched environments. Still have not figgered out what changed.
Back in the BITNET days, I was happily PUNching TARballs from UTS on one VM system to AIX/370 on another, and back again. Ahhh... those were the days. -- R; <>< On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 22:14, Patrick Spinler <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > I was just messing about with the vmur utility from the s390 tools, and > I was wondering: has anyone attempted to punch a kernel, initrd + param > file directly from (a suitably privileged) linux guest into another > guests' reader? It'd be a nifty provisioning trick: generate the > appropriate param file to do a kickstart install, then punch all the > above to a new linux guest and 'vmcp xautolog <linuxguest> ipl 0C' it. > Do all this directly from the NFS server I keep the OS images on. > > I'm curious because it doesn't look like vmcp allows me to specify a > fixed record length - I can specify separator and padding bytes with the > "vmur punch --blocked" option, but that doesn't really sound like what's > required here. > > I'll continue to play around with this, but does anyone have any thoughts? > > Thanks! > - -- Pat > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAksxix8ACgkQNObCqA8uBsweLwCgkjjqQV6nG0Pe0JDVOGqYsWeh > 97UAnjOImkBuGIlyi0wh0zG+Ug5SqMId > =x9F3 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
