Re: Question about OS activation

2009-06-09 Thread Matt Hogstrom
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

Re: Question about OS activation

2009-06-09 Thread Andy Kurth
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

Question about OS activation

2009-06-06 Thread Matt Hogstrom
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