On Wednesday, 03/26/2008 at 12:20 EDT, "Gary M. Dennis" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Emulation would be a non-starter for a production environment. I would
> describe this system as a single pass code segment translation system 
with
> conditional block invalidation.
> 
> We have been using VM for 20 of our 27 years in business. A development
> environment without it has never been considered an option.
> 
> Many companies (ours included) consider running a few dozen virtual 
Windows®
> images on a rack-mounted machine good business. We see no reason why
> z/System should not support from 250 images on the low end to several
> thousand on mid and high end systems.

An excellent goal.  As a point of comparison, have you ever run Windows 
using the Bochs emulator on zLinux?  If so, on what machine?  (I'd like to 
see someone try it on a z10.)

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott

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