On Tuesday, 09/22/2009 at 11:34 EDT, David Boyes <dbo...@sinenomine.net> 
wrote:
> Wrt to dedicated vs VSWITCH, use VSWITCH if you possibly can. Isolates 
you from 
> the weirdnesses of the various OSAs, and the impact of the extra code is 

> minimal. 

I don't know about "weirdness," but in practical terms it eliminates the 
need to run a dynamic routing daemon in each Linux guest simply to handle 
OSA/cable/port/switch failures.  The VSWITCH handles it all without 
bothering the guest.

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott

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