The existing licenses already allow running in a virtual environment and
don't specify what chips etc that could be. They could change future
licenses, perhaps, but MS licenses don't work like Mainframe Licenses and it
would be hard to exclude mainframe based emulation without excluding VM
Ware. I guess they could buy VM Ware first...
Dave G4UGM
Illegitimi Non Carborundum
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Subject: Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
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Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 2:01 PM
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Why would the Microsoft Licensing be "tricky"? Expensive
perhaps as you need
one license per virtual machine, but not tricky...
Well, "tricky" in that MS might refuse to grant the license. They are
under no obligation to do so. And they are really, really worried about
Windows under any virtualization other than their own. Running on
"unsupported" hardware would likely make them even more reluctant. Of
course, I cannot think of any software that runs on Windows that I would
want to run on a z. I'd rather replace any such with "equivalent"
software, if there is some, or just run on Intel for that function.
--
John McKown
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