On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Patrick Spinler <[email protected]> wrote: ... > Several of the things I've seen mention of as specific Z advantages in > this thread, though, are just as easily doable on other platforms.
Right. And what Rodger said about that. Some points come from the HW architecture. Some come from z/VM as an implementation. Agreed, it is robust and thorough. I depend on it! But when preaching to different congregations, we need to be accurate and well versed. As a technician, I want to crack the hood and know the realities inside. I value the paint job. Looks sell. But looks aren't long-term. I value the drive-train more. As a group, we need to enumerate the actual strengths of z/VM. If the other implementations can do the same thing, great! And where they cannot, I want to force their hand. > For instance someone mentioned fast cloning on Z; however I know a guy > here who has a virtualbox on top of Solaris/x86 ... My co-presenter demonstrated the opposite last night. Ironic. And cool! -- R; <>< ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
