> Interesting idea. Perhaps you'd call is z/olaris? :) I hope not. There are enough marketing idjits at IBM thinking up silliness like that. 8-).
It'd probably have to be called OpenSolaris for z9 and zSeries, unless the lawyers in Somers are sleeping (hah!). At least I think that's what the current eServer trademark usage rules require. > Would you want it to run as a client OS or as a El Hypervisor? Probably as a virtual machine within z/VM, and let z/VM handle the virtualization stuff. You can't run the zSeries boxen in basic mode any longer anyway (you must partition them), and once OpenSolaris is up, then we have lots of options. That's the way we got Linux to work on that platform, and the virtualization in z/VM is/would be superior. Within the virtual machine, we can then experiment with both configurations. Having z/VM also makes a bunch of the device drivers much simpler to implement; at that point, all three of the absolutely necessary device drivers are about 80% done, and the actual details of the underlying hardware aren't important (let CP worry about them, and present me a nice normalized virtual device). _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
