I found this in the RHEL7.5 release notes.. The 3.10 kernel version does not support KVM virtualization and containers on IBM z Systems. Both of these features are supported on the 4.14 kernel on IBM z Systems - this offerring is also referred to as Structure A.
I run z/VM as the hypervisor, so I am assuming I would need RHEL7 Structure A to do containers? Thanks, Terri Glowaniak -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Viktor VM Mihajlovski Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2018 2:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: 7.5 package levels [External Content] Please use caution. On 24.05.2018 06:59, Timothy Sipples wrote: > Russ Herrold wrote: >> It may turn out that we (ClefOS) need to fork and offer two variants > > I guess I'd call them "streams" rather than "forks." > > For what it's worth, Red Hat seems to offer at least 3 major streams now: > Fedora (their "community" release), RHEL Structure A, and RHEL. The > RHEL Structure A/RHEL pair of streams is a unique offering for the > s390x architecture branch, at least for now. (Is it a one-time > aberration or the start of something new? I have no idea, so ask Red > Hat, I guess.) In RHEL 7.5, Red Hat decided to offer kernel 3.10 > (only) for all POWER processors prior to POWER9, and (only) kernel > 4.14 for POWER9. For X86-64 it's only 3.10, and for ARM64 it's only 4.14. > > There are certain newer capabilities that RHEL 7.5 doesn't support on > s390x that RHEL 7.5 Structure A does. Red Hat's release notes explain all > that. > But it's possible to mix RHEL and RHEL Structure A instances on the > same machine and in a Red Hat supported way. (And, for that matter, > other supported RHEL releases.) > Specifically, RHEL Structure A is required to run KVM guests on IBM Z. Guests can be either RHEL and RHEL Structure A. Another thing to keep in mind is that the s390utils-* releases are different. For RHEL it's 1.23.0 and for RHEL Structure A it's 2.1.0. > It looks like the minimum RHEL 7.5/RHEL 7.5 Structure A machine model > requirement hasn't changed since RHEL 7.4, so it's z196/z114 > processors or higher, which includes all LinuxONE machines. > > I don't have a strong view on the "right" approach for Linux release > streams. It really depends on end users and what they prefer, and they > might choose particular Linux distributors based on their different > release/service stream approaches. There are some important > principles, though. I'd say that maintaining security currency is > quite important, as a notable example. But that'll likely mean not > waiting too long to exploit new system features since many of those > new features are often security-related. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------- > Timothy Sipples > IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM Z & LinuxONE, > Multi-Geography > E-Mail: [email protected] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ > -- Regards, Viktor Mihajlovski ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
