On Wednesday, 01/04/2006 at 04:02 CST, Art Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan A. wrote: > > If you order tape, > you can do 2nd level installation on any release you want as long as it is > on a z/Architecture box. > > Not exactly true. We tried, and failed, to install 5.1.0 2nd level on our > VM/ESA 2.4.0 system. You can only install 2nd level on a 64 bit z/VM OS. : )
You are absolutely right, Art! To install z/VM v5 as a second level system, you must have both o A System z (tm) box o z/VM v3.1 or later running in z/Architecture (not S/390) mode With the point being that you need a z/Architecture virtual machine. Mea culpa for not being more explicit! :-) (I really shouldn't try to type while Chuckie is talking; he ... confuses ... me.) Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
