Thanks for the pointer .. I'll follow this up.
The reason I'm asking is that we're (me and some guys at IBM) are
working on something that will initialize multiple OS types on various
hypervisor platforms. Of course, working for IBM this includes AIX
and pSeries as well as Linux on System
Hi Matt,
The OS tasks are handles by different OS modules. An OS object is created for
each reservation being processed. The module which gets instantiated as the OS
object depends on the OS of the image assigned to the reservation. I have begun
some crude documentation on the steps involved
Can someone provide me a pointer in the tree that outlines the various
ways OS instances are intiialized? I'm thinking of the low-level OS
things like initial user IDs, network information, startup scripting,
etc. Specifically, I'm looking for how this is handled for multiple
OSes.
I'll