But that was my question. Since IBM and VMWare are partnering on this effort, would IBM have contributed any sort of functionality lifted from z/VM? If not, why the partnership? Romney has stated that there are going to be certain conceptual similarities, and I realized that from the beginning. I was curious about just _how much_ similarity was going to wind up being there. There's been some discussion in the past (I think David Boyes brought it up) that there's no reason why z/VM couldn't emulate non-S/390 instructions on an S/390. Hercules is already providing the foundation for the converse.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: David Goodenough [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 3:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: VM for Intel? But VMware and z/VM are entirely separate. They both do much the same thing, in fact one could almost say that z/VM and its ancestors inspired VMware, but VMware is not produced by IBM, rather - as the item says, by VMware Inc. "Post, Mark K" <mark.post@eds. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] com> cc: Sent by: Linux Subject: VM for Intel? on 390 Port <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ARIST.EDU> 02/19/02 03:16 PM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port I received this item today from InfoWorld. I'm wondering if anyone on the IBM VM development team could comment if any part of z/VM is being integrated into this software. (Alan, Romney?) Mark Post - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - PARTNERWORLD - IBM AND VMWARE WORK ON PARTITIONING TOOLS Posted February 19, 2002 03:38 Pacific Time SAN FRANCISCO -- - IBM Corp. and VMware Inc. announced a partnership Tuesday to work on improving partitioning software for high end Intel-based servers. Partitioning tools, once only common on mainframes, have made their way to higher-end Unix servers, and now IBM and VMware are looking to add the same software to servers with 16 or fewer Intel Corp. processors, said Jay Bretzmann, director of xSeries server marketing at IBM. The companies have developed a version of the software for IBM's x360 server and plan an update to the software for the third quarter that will be aimed at the high end of the xSeries line. For the full story: http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/02/19/020219hnibmvm.xml?0219tuam
