How can it possibly be 15+ years!! In any case, congratulations - it has
proved to be a great resource.
Ray
On 4/8/2020 06:35, Michael MacIsaac wrote:
Hello list,
Wow, The Virtualization Cookbook still alive and kicking. Nice work to all
involved! I remember working on the first one more than
On the subject of #CP VI VMSG... my brain/finger combination often had
problems trying to enter the command I wanted before the timeout
occurred. Eventually it dawned on me that I could enter '#CP' on its own
(or use PA1) to enter CP READ, after which I could take my time entering
the VI VMSG comma
Thank you...
Ray
On 3/25/2017 13:52, Philipp Kern wrote:
On 03/22/2017 01:06 PM, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
On 03/22/2017 12:51 PM, Ray Mansell wrote:
Thank you all for the information. It would appear we are stuck with 32
CPUs for the moment and, since I'm retiring at the end of next
Thank you all for the information. It would appear we are stuck with 32
CPUs for the moment and, since I'm retiring at the end of next week, I
guess my replacement will have to decide how to proceed :-)
Thanks again,
Ray
On 3/21/2017 18:46, Mark Post wrote:
On 3/21/2017 at 06:32 PM
On 3/21/2017 17:38, Mark Post wrote:
What does /proc/cmdline show for the kernel parms?
Mark Post
cat /proc/cmdline
root=/dev/disk/by-path/ccw-0.0.9207-part3 BOOT_IMAGE=0
Can this be modified to allow >32 CPUs?
Many thanks for your help,
Ray
We've been running some beefy Debian servers, but of course one of them
was not beefy enough, and we were asked if we could increase the number
of CPUs from 32 to 48. Easy, I thought, until I rebooted the beefier
server only to discover it had restricted itself to 32 CPUs, even though
it knew 48 w
Excellent!
root@ray:/tmp# rexx rexxcps.rex
- REXXCPS 2.1 -- Measuring REXX clauses/second -
REXX version is: REXX-ooRexx_4.2.0(MT)_64-bit 6.04 16 Dec 2016
System is: LINUX
Averaging: 100 measures of 100 iterations
Performance: 8017343 REXX clauses per second
That's o
I see three versions internally... none of them written by Stuart
Feldman :-)
Ray
On 12/12/2016 09:58, Rick Troth wrote:
After creating this spin, I found there is an IBM version too. Looks
quite complete.
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Martha...
I've been fighting the same thing all afternoon. Thought I was going
bonkers, since it all worked so well last week. For the moment I've
installed without LVM, but there's certainly a problem.
Ray
On 4/11/2016 19:00, Martha McConaghy wrote:
I've been fighting with a Debian install al
it looks a lot like the Debian installation
procedure. Well, so far... it hasn't yet completed.
Ray
On 3/31/2016 10:17, Viktor Mihajlovski wrote:
On 31.03.2016 15:57, Ray Mansell wrote:
I downloaded and expanded the CD image, and started to install it.
However, I'm now stuck looking fo
I downloaded and expanded the CD image, and started to install it.
However, I'm now stuck looking for an FTP server from which to perform
the bulk of the installation.
On the "Select your location" screen, I choose USA.
The next screen "Choose a mirror..." supplies "enter information
manually" as
Thanks, Marcy - Perhaps I can offload all this effort onto our z/OS
admin. I rather like the sound of that...
Ray
On 11/17/2015 15:55, Marcy Cortes wrote:
Changing devices numbers is generally not a problem unless you have lots of
dedicated devices.
SSI needs a bit of work as well if you have
2015 11:07, Mark Post wrote:
On 11/17/2015 at 10:12 AM, Ray Mansell wrote:
Speaking of disk address changes... how does one cope with that? We have
a new DS8700 to replace our ancient DS8000s, and I'm wondering what is
the best way to migrate our LPAR Linux servers to the new box? I'm sure
Speaking of disk address changes... how does one cope with that? We have
a new DS8700 to replace our ancient DS8000s, and I'm wondering what is
the best way to migrate our LPAR Linux servers to the new box? I'm sure
this must have been done before, so I'd be very interested to learn how
others have
On 10/6/2015 06:54, Philipp Kern wrote:
On 2015-10-05 20:26, Grzegorz Powiedziuk wrote:
I’ve seen weird python errors similar to these ones (unfortunately I
didn’t keep traces to compare) in some linux distribution during the
installation if I had a “dirty disk”.
This isn't a weird Python erro
On 10/6/2015 06:27, Michael Mueller wrote:
On Mon, 5 Oct 2015 11:11:40 -0400
Ray Mansell wrote:
I'm trying to install zKVM in a virtual machine, but no matter what
installation options I choose, I always get the following error:
2015-10-03 14:39:40,900 - controller.controller -
On 10/5/2015 13:28, Mark Post wrote:
On 10/5/2015 at 11:11 AM, Ray Mansell wrote:
Help? Please?
That looks like a problem IBM will need to fix. One question, though; does
your virtual machine provide all the system resources they ask for in the
documentation?
Mark Post
I'm pretty
I'm trying to install zKVM in a virtual machine, but no matter what
installation options I choose, I always get the following error:
2015-10-03 14:39:40,900 - controller.controller - INFO - InstallProgress
screen
2015-10-03 14:39:40,901 - controller.controller - INFO - Formatting disks...
2015-10
This may be more successful:
sed -i 's:dev/sda1/scratch ext3 defaults 1 2:dev/sda1/scratch ext3
defaults 1 0:' /etc/fstab
Or... you could use something as simple as the 'cat' command:
cat /etc/fstab
cat > /etc/fstab.fixed
At this point you have the original fstab displayed on th
I looked, and I still have my update to DMSFOR. All it needs is rework
to accommodate the intervening quarter-century's worth of changes to the
source :-)
On 2/3/2015 23:19, Alan Altmark wrote:
Hence my comment about revisiting DMSFOR and DMSAUD. So instead of
trying to modify the disk such th
Back in those same mid-80s I added code to the FORMAT command to provide
an 'EXTEND' option. You could create a new, larger minidisk, the first
cylinders of which were a replica of the old one. Then you could simply
FORMAT the new minidisk, specifying the EXTEND option, and it would
magically grow
Thanks, Dan - that did the trick.
Ray
On 11/6/2014 10:06, Dan Horák wrote:
On Thu, 6 Nov 2014 09:46:47 -0500
Ray Mansell wrote:
I'm having pretty much the same problem described by Mike, except
that my generic.prm looks like this:
ro ramdisk_size=4 cio_ignore=all,!condev
inst.rep
I'm having pretty much the same problem described by Mike, except that
my generic.prm looks like this:
ro ramdisk_size=4 cio_ignore=all,!condev
inst.repo=ftp://9.2.98.16/e/redhat/rhel7
Looking at the FTP server, there is no sign that any attempt was made to
access it.
Any ideas? I must b
Along the same lines, I set the status area to reverse video for my
second-level systems.
Ray
On 4/10/2014 15:01, Ronald van der Laan wrote:
Robert,
You could use the STATUS command in the SYSTEM CONFIG to change the usual
CP RUNNING, CP READ, etc into something else.
We once had messages lik
I looked him up in the IBM internal phonebook - he isn't there. So I
sent him email (inside IBM), and in reply I received:
Umberto Silvestri is prepared for DELETION (FREEZE)
When I looked more carefully, the reply had actually been sent by some
sort of agent server in IBM Germany, so it would s
7;m leaving for holiday tomorrow, so I guess I'll start chasing this
again when I return. I must have done something very wrong if basic
things like yum and rpm generate seg faults!
Thanks again for your help,
Ray
On 8/1/2013 03:30, Dan Horák wrote:
On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 12:44:21 -0400
Ray
Thanks, Richard, but it's not clear to me how I'd even start
investigating thread-related things in Fedora. I know I'm naive, but I
kind of expected this just to work, since it is, after all, a rather
basic function (installing the system).
Ray
On 7/31/2013 13:45, Richard J Moore wrote:
Ray, if
ll
it (i.e. LAYER2=0). I even tried LAYER2=NO and, just to be perverse,
LAYER2=1, but with no perceptible difference.
Any suggestions? Or should I just give up and leave early for my vacation?
Ray
On 7/31/2013 11:03, Neale Ferguson wrote:
s3...@lists.fedoraproject.org
On 7/31/13 10:54 AM, &q
ller image,
see
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/s390x/18 for an example"
On 7/31/13 10:22 AM, "Ray Mansell" wrote:
root=/dev/ram0
On 7/31/2013 10:11, Neale Ferguson wrote:
What does your root=
root=/dev/ram0
On 7/31/2013 10:11, Neale Ferguson wrote:
What does your root= parameter line look like?
On 7/31/13 10:00 AM, "Ray Mansell" wrote:
I've spent several frustrating hours trying in vain to install Fedora,
both in text mode and using VNC, but it never actually
You might want to save "/run/initramfs/sosreport.txt" to a USB stick
or /boot
after mounting them and attach it to a bug report.
If you can help me get past this, I would be very happy!
Thank you,
Ray Mansell
On 7/16/2013 08:33, Dan Horák wrote:
Hello everyone,
Fedora 19 GA release
You joined seven months earlier than I did - so between us we have more
than 7 decades of VM experience.
Yikes!
Ray
On 6/11/2010 19:38, Jim Elliott wrote:
And I should have noted, today is the 37th anniversary of my
joining IBM. Most of that has been spent working on VM and
more recently Linux
Thank you, David and Mark.
As it turns out, I *had* done the right thing (changed the boot parm in
zipl.conf), but due to a finger check had managed to specify the wrong
partition. Your responses caused me to double-check my work and thus
discover my error.
Ray
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same as the
original, and the server refuses to boot. If I boot the server from its
original home, is there a way to change the root= parm to be something
rather less specific so that it will then boot in its new home?
Many thanks,
Ray Ma
Mark Perry wrote:
Rare - No, infrequent more like. Of course it depends on planning :-)
Thanks to all who replied... your responses have pretty much confirmed
what I suspected, and the quote above ("it depends on planning") is also
most apt.
Thanks again,
R
Mark Perry wrote:
Yes Ray, when adding extra DASD to a non-stop server, and of course a
lot more in a testing environment, we even add and remove CPUs for
different tests.
Mark
Thanks, Mark... but this is a relatively rare event, yes? I should have
been a little more explicit, in that I'm tryi
in practice?
Many thanks...
Ray Mansell
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Kim Goldenberg wrote:
Not usually so hard. often the Linux three-step:
1. ./cofigure
2. make
3. (as root) make install
Kim
Exactly what I was looking for - thank you, Kim!
Ray
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Eli Dow wrote:
Hi Ray,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 5) contains make
3.8 as does my sles10 sp1 system here in the lab. I imagine it might
need to be built from source if you need that particular version :)
First, I apologise for somehow managing to hang this off an exi
Is MAKE 3.81 available for mainframe Linux, and if so, where might I
find it?
Thank you...
Ray Mansell
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ome of z/VM's performance knobs and dials
instead?
Ray Mansell
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agrams more
"railroad-like" than the diagrams in use these days
... which is why, many years ago, I wrote RRT XEDIT which renders the
HELP diagrams using graphic characters where possible. *Much* more
readable, and prett
SPident
LJ Mace wrote:
What fix paxk oof sles I'm on?? I know I'm on sp3 but
let say I fall and bump my head tonight and tomorrow
someone asks me "What fix pack of sles are we on?"
I could try a unmae -a ,if I rememebered it but that
doesn't show it.
thanks
Mace
r sense of adventure?)
In any case, thank you all again for a most informative thread. I have
learned many new things, and have been delving into initrd and other
places I had never visited before, so it was far from a waste of time.
Thanks again,
R
Romanowski, John (OFT) wrote:
A brute force method for SLES 9 would be to edit the initial ramdisk's
/linuxrc script to insert lines like
/sbin/dasd_configure 0.0.16zz 1 0
Thank you, John... I will try that right now.
Ray
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Kyle Smith wrote:
SUSE creates files in /etc/sysconfig/hardware for each DASD or qeth
device
and uses hotplug/coldplug to bring them up on boot. If the files get
renamed & the contents updated I would assume the changes would get
picked
up, although YaST may keep it's own cache somewhere.
Yes
Klaus Bergmann wrote:
Change the "dasd=" parameter in /etc/zipl.conf, then execute "zipl -V", and
you are prepared for the new addresses.
Thank you, Klaus. However, zipl.conf does not contain such a line, at
least on the system in question, so where else might Linux be obtaining
such informati
al of success.
Assuming he is able, temporarily, to revert to the original addresses
and bring his system up, is there some way to tell Linux about the new
addresses?
Many thanks,
Ray Mansell
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It's hugely more difficult to map (and keep consistent over time)
virtual addresses onto real ones, one to one, than it is to determine on
which real volume a particular guest's minidisk resides.
Ray Mansell
Mike Lovins wrote:
The main reason I asked the question was because my Z/VM
But then if I modelled it on the LINK statement, I'd wind up back to
front again :-)
Ray Mansell
Marcy Cortes wrote:
If you think of it as device statements in the dir are usually SOMETHING
VADDR, then remembering that the virtual address is first makes more
You are not alone. I *always* have to check DIRM HELP before adding a
dedicate statement. On the other hand, it is similar to, for example,
the MVC instruction in that the 'target' appears before the 'source'.
Ray Mansell
Bates, Bob wrote:
Careful on the DEDICATE statement
example:
q memassist
ALL USERS SET - ON
USER SETTING STATUS
MANSELL ONACTIVE
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Gentlemen,
Many thanks... I think I have it now. Much appreciated...
Ray
Richard Hitt wrote:
Hi, Ray
gdb will give you an instruction trace. Use the gdb command "display/i
$pc" and then use either "si" or "ni" to step instructionwise through
your program.
Neale Ferguson wrote:
Use gdb to
0:23 -0400, ysgrifennodd Ray Mansell:
The low level interface is ptrace (2) (see man 2 ptrace).
McKown, John wrote:
GDB - The GNU Debugger. It use the "ptrace" function in Linux to do
these things. It is also a source level debugger if you compiled the
program
? Specifically, I'd like
to be able to trace the entire execution of a given program running
under Linux, but I have less than a clue as to how to do that.
Many thanks...
Ray Mansell
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, as I recall.
Ray Mansell
Dominic Coulombe wrote:
Hi,
my observations are that you absolutely need to disconnect from a running
linux machine.
If you logoff, your machine is killed.
If you close the TN3270 or it crashes, you have to reconnect quickly
to your
running session, then you can
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