On 1/25/10 12:01 PM, "Patrick Spinler" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I fear that while you're right, in the end it may not make a large > difference. Specifically, in our world, free or low up front cost often > seems to trump most other considerations, including TCO over expected > system lifetime. No kidding. That's why I think the CERN ELFms project is so interesting. Those tools could be very attractive (and we have s390x binaries available to our support customers....8-)). > As a result, I kind of expect to see linux/KVM hypervisor installations > on Z spreading in a few years. So do I, and that's not a bad thing. Harder than necessary, but not bad. What we have to do is assume that we need to solve the management problems and use the knowledge we have from z/VM to not reinvent the wheel. 40+ years is a long time and a lot of knowledge to toss because it's "old". > At least, if the idea of Z series > virtualization doesn't get prematurely killed by commodity intel > hardware virtualization first. :-( They got the same management problems, only worse because they didn't design for them. -- db ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
