Ranga Nathan wrote:

That product seems to do much more than what we need. I am a little concerned about unwanted complexity.

Alan Altmark wrote:

On Friday, 01/06/2006 at 11:46 EST, David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
We find the IBM Virtualization Engine (VE), which contains IBM

Director,
to be very usable for Linux virtual machine management when used with

the
z/VM Center extensions.

*As far as it goes*, I'd agree. The problem is that it's still pretty

limited
in function, and the documentation is very explicit about it not

supporting
anything other than Linux guests. CMS isn't gone yet...

We'll see how it develops.


As soon as we start hearing from customers that configuring/cloning CMS guests is a problem that needs to be solved, I promise we'll go back and take another look.

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott


We already have tools for configuring/cloning CMS guests. They are called Dirmaint and VM:Secure. Don't take that other look unless you really are starved for something to keep you busy.

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