David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote :- >> The number of CMS-intensive shops is being slowly >> strangled to nothing, and we increasingly see CP plus guests, with only >> a tiny number of sysprogs having access to a CMS userid. At what point >> does the balance tip to focusing on the integrity of the CP hipervisors >> and guest OSes, not on CMS users?
> Overall you may be right but we are not the only TPF shop where there are many hundreds > of VM userids running TPF and many more for the control and administration of these. > It will be a long while before we reach the simplicity of running 20-30 Linux images > where everything is done within the guests. Makes sense, and there will always be exceptions, just as the "guest-only" configuration was the exception a few years back. I don't want to prohibit your configuration, but I do want to try to get the "default" configuration to reflect the most common uses (principle of least surprise).