Virtualization on POWER7

2011-09-13 Thread Sunil Venkatesh
Dear all, As informed by Dr. Yesha, we @ UMBC are working on provisioning virtual nodes from the POWER7 blade. And, I wanted to update regarding the restrictions that I have come across in achieving the same. Virtualization with RedHat EL (RHEL) is not possible on POWER7 - 1. Latest version of

Re: Virtualization on POWER7

2011-09-13 Thread Aaron Peeler
Sunil, I think this would be a great addition. While I've not used Power7 or PowerVM. I do know of some interest in VCL supporting this. The VCL community is looking for good committers. Would you be interested in developing this, not only for UMBC but for the larger VCL community? Given the work

Re: Virtualization on POWER7

2011-09-13 Thread Sunil Venkatesh
Aaron, We would certainly be targeting the development towards the larger VCL community. But, this development is possible when the PowerVM package is made available. I would assume a module that is similar to the existing KVM module should serve the purpose. Regards, Sunil On Sep 13, 2011, a