A new version of smaclient is available for download. Version 1.1 adds some additional message handling, and some additional testing of the newer z/VM 6.2 interfaces. It also adds version display if invoked with no arguments.
For those of you who haven't played with smaclient yet, it provides a line-mode interface to the z/VM System Management API (SMAPI) for most Unix-compatible systems such as Linux. Smaclient can exercise all the VM management interfaces to create, modify and destroy virtual machines without ever logging into z/VM. It's a script, so it's not limited to Linux on z; any Unix-like system will do. To use it, rename the script to smaclient and run it. Note: You need to perform the setup steps for the VM SMAPI virtual machines in the IBM documentation for this tool to work. The latest code is available from http://download.sinenomine.net/smaclient. Older versions have been moved to an OLDER dir in the same location. A future version will be packaged as a RPM for friendly installation. Have fun. ==db David Boyes Sine Nomine Associates ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
