Multiple LPARs can share an IFL... but the only way to run multiple Linux instances in a single LPAR is using z/VM to virtualize it.
If you're really talking about one lonely IFL - you'll likely want to dedicate it and let z/VM manage the sharing on a single LPAR. Scott Rohling On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Hughes, Jim <[email protected]> wrote: > Someone told me it is possible to run 12 Linux images on a single IFL > without the use of z/VM. > > Is this true and how? > > The management around here heard this statement a while back and are now > on a quest for us to create an LPAR for the IFL to run multiple Linux > images on it. I must have missed the memo and I am looking for what I > may have missed. > > Thanks in advance. > > ____________________ > Jim Hughes > Consulting Systems Programmer > Mainframe Technical Support Group > Department of Information Technology > State of New Hampshire > 27 Hazen Drive > Concord, NH 03301 > 603-271-5586 Fax 603.271.1516 > > Statement of Confidentiality: The contents of this message are > confidential. Any unauthorized disclosure, reproduction, use or > dissemination (either whole or in part) is prohibited. If you are not > the intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender > immediately and delete the message from your system. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
