Jim, Absolutely. You can define virtual CTCs or IUCV links between your new guest and either the VM TCP/IP stack, or the SuSE guest. You'll need to be careful about assigning IP addresses and the associated routing. There's been a ton of discussion on the mailing list about that, and both Romney White and Alan Altmark have been very helpful with information on what needs to be done there.
I'm afraid I don't understand why you're giving up on the OCO modules at this time. (I don't believe it's _hopeless_ just not guaranteed because no one else has been proclaiming success as of yet.) Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Jim Rich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 5:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Post, Mark K Subject: Re: Red Hat RC2 Install Problem on MP3000 Mark, Is there any way to bring up Red Hat RC2 without the OCO modules? I'm running z/VM V4R2 on the MP3000, with two OS/390 guests plus SuSE SLES7 already. Regards, Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: Post, Mark K To: 'Jim Rich' ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 3:53 PM Subject: RE: Red Hat RC2 Install Problem on MP3000 Jim, Here's what you said: "...the same setup I use successfully for SuSE on another MP3000 system, which is LCS3172 address pair..." LCS=Lan Channel Station=OSA. Your PC ethernet card is being emulated as an OSA card to your MP3K. SuSE includes the IBM OCO modules, so that's why you didn't have a problem with that distribution. Red Hat and IBM claim that if you follow the directions to include the modules yourself, that it will work. If you get it to work, I ask that you report that to the mailing list, as it will be the first public report of such a success with Red Hat and their later kernels. The URL you want is this: http://www10.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux390/special_oco _rh_2.4.shtml Watch out for the mailing list server chopping that up; it's pretty long. You can get to there from here: http://www10.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux390/index.shtml Your dialog responses looked reasonable, but since I don't have access to a system with an OSA card (real or emulated) I haven't been able to play around with the installation script to determine just what works and what doesn't. Still, if you have problems, I'm willing to work with you to try to figure them out. Mark Post