CMS hasn’t been able to run without CP for probably at least 50 years.  The
change to DIAGNOSE I/O in CMS 5.5 (ca. 1988) sealed its fate.

When I arrived in 1982 (end of R3), CMS was even then replete with DIAGNOSE
dependencies that I suspect began in VM/370.

Regards,
Alan Altmark
IBM

> On Dec 8, 2020, at 5:41 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 
>>
>> On 2020-12-08, at 14:12:21, Bruce Hayden wrote:
>>
>> z/VM doesn't hide the hardware.  In just about all cases, if it won't
run
>> in an LPAR, it also won't run under z/VM.
>>
> I recall a counterexample was OpenSolaris.  It wouldn't run in
> an LPAR, but only under VM.  I suspect the matter was not "hid[ing]
> the hardware" but required CP services not available from the hardware.
>
> And CMS?  I understand modern CMS will not run in an LPAR but
> will run under VM.
>
>> ... I'm sure SLES 9 since it is so
>> old starts up in ESA/390 mode and then switches to z/Architecture mode
(64
>> bit.)  The z14 doesn't support ESA/390 mode for Linux, so SLES 9 will
not
>> IPL in an LPAR or under z/VM.  I'm not sure what level of z/VM you are
on
>> now, but you can test it by shutting down Linux, entering SET MACHINE Z,
>> and then trying to IPL it.
>
> -- gil
>
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