Exactly what I want to do.  Thanks.


On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Bruce Hayden <[email protected]> wrote:

> Linux on System z does support hibernation.  It is documented as suspending
> and resuming, but it is not a suspend like you suspend a laptop.  It is
> more like hibernation where all active memory is written to a swap DASD
> before Linux stops.  See the device drivers book for the level of Linux
> that you have (
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/documentation_red_hat.html
> or
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/documentation_suse.html)
> to read more about it.
>
> However, for the most part you probably only want to issue CP commands, so
> use the vmcp Linux command to do that (as others have stated.)  If you want
> to update CMS files on a minidisk owned by the Linux server, just use
> another id to do that.  Detach the disk from Linux (or re-link it read
> only), then link and access it r/w from another id and make the updates.
>  No need to stop Linux for either of these methods.
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Cameron Seay <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I have what I think is a simple question.  Maybe I'm not clear about how
> to
> > stop and restart a Linux server, but I was under the impressing that if I
> > have a running Linux server in a guest I could "suspend" it and then
> return
> > to the state that the server was in when I suspended it.  My question
> comes
> > from a need to go into a guest that has a running Linux server, switch
> over
> > to CMS to do something, and then resume the server's work.  I know how to
> > #cp stop or #cp begin, but the only way I know to get back to the server
> is
> > to ipl it again.  Is there a way I can go back to the processing point I
> > was on the Linux server before I stopped it?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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>
>
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> Bruce Hayden
> z/VM and Linux on System z ATS
> IBM, Endicott, NY
>
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Department of Computer Systems Technology
School of Technology
NC A & T State University
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