I don't think IBM would see you a new license for z/VM 6.1 on a z9, but if you
have an existing z/VM version 5 license with Subscription and Support, you're
entitled to version upgrades at no extra charge. Read the fine print in your
license agreement. You shouldn't expect support for z/VM 6.1 on a z9, but you
might be entitled to run it there. Just don't expect it to run well.
Dennis
"That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind". -- Neil
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-----Original Message-----
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf
Of Dave Jones
Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 14:44
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: [IBMVM] z/VM 6.1 and Hercules on Z9
But I think that's the real problem here, you can not license z/VM 6.1
on a z9 processor, so in effect you would be running unlicensed software
(z/VM 6.1) on an unsupported system (z9->Linux->Hercules->z/VM 6.1).
And, as Rob has pointed out, performance would in all likelihood be
perfectly horrible.
Adam Thornton wrote:
> On Jul 28, 2009, at 4:25 PM, Edward M Martin wrote:
>
>>
>> I can say that, 1) it is illegal to run z/VM (pick a version)
>> under Hercules, 2) they do not like it, and 3) they do not have any
>> sense of humor.
>
> Perfectly fine to run it under Hercules on the processor z/VM is
> licensed to.
>
> Adam
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