>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.
The main roadblock to VM-type systems on Intel is the lack of the hardware support (which has been added to mainframe over the years) for efficient virtualisation. SIE etc. >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. Well it might then be possible to run M$ code on an S/390... that's the best possible reason for never doing any such thing... More seriously, the question would have to be how and why? The performance would *suck* - why waste all those MF mips emulating an Intel chip? Mike _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com
