Hmm ... I thought it was/is *impossible* to license z/VM 5.anything on a Flex box! Did something change?
JR (Steven) Imler CA Senior Software Engineer Tel: +1 703 708 3479 Fax: +1 703 708 3267 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Jones Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 01:19 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Installing z/VM 5.3 on Flex-ES box Short answer is yes, it should work. Adam Thornton wrote: > So, I presume we're going to want z/VM 5.3 on our Flex box when it's > available. > > We *do* have a deskside 3480/3490 drive, so we can use that if we must. > But it's slow and kind of cranky. > > I was wondering whether it ought to be possible, instead, to do a DVD > install. As I understand it, on a real zSeries (do I mean System Z? I > get confused) box, all that basically does is start an FTP server on the > HMC and then allow the installing VM instance to FTP stuff over. > > The Flex box has (or can trivially have) an FTP server on it. It would > be a whole lot less unpleasant to just mount the DVD (or copy the files > off the DVD onto the Flex host) than it would to deal with real > magtape. Is this likely to work? > > Adam -- DJ V/Soft
