Any z/VM that is supported on your hardware can be used to host RHEL 8. Since RHEL 8 requires z13 or later hardware, you could use either z/VM 6.4 or 7.1.
Rick Barlow Velocity Software On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 5:16 PM Alan Haff <[email protected]> wrote: > How about z/VM - what's the minimum version required to run RHEL8 guests? > I've reviewed the docs at > https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/8/, > including > https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/performing_a_standard_rhel_installation/system-requirements-reference_installing-rhel > and haven't been able to find anything about z/VM at all. > > Will any version of z/VM that will run on a z13 (and above) suffice? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Timothy Sipples > Sent: Monday, December 9, 2019 21:28 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: OpenShift 4.2 for Linux on Z now available as a tech preview. > > Tuan Hoang wrote: > >It will run on whatever env RHEL8 is supported. > >RHCOS is built from RHEL8 contents/binaries. > > That means IBM z13 processors and higher, including IBM LinuxONE Emperor > and IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper machines and higher. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Timothy Sipples > IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM Z & LinuxONE > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
