Mark: No reason other than performance, which of course is a perfectly adequate roadblock to the whole idea of Intel emulation.
Romney On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 11:05:34 -0500 Post, Mark K said: >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