> Maybe a blade center could be considered an IA-CEC (Intel Architecture) and > could be located under systems/. But then do they have LPARs, hipervisors > (certainly not z/VM) and virtual machines? I think two, but not three. But > then, I've done very little with virtualization on IA.
Modern Intel hardware (particularly blades) can do all 3, with added software. Blade chassis can be partitioned, VMWare, and virtual machines conceptually are similar. > Further, Mz relies heavily on vmcp and less-heavily on SMAPI. Do IA > hipervisors have the equivalent? Yes, but the APIs are not uniform. You'd have to support one at a time (eg, VMWare would be a good starting place as it's most similar to the z/VM model. OpenVirt is gaining ground though, and that would get you Xen and KVM). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
