> > We need a Lingua Franca for hypervisors. > > Consider the command > > > > hcp attach F200-F202 mylinux > > > > Makes perfect sense, though the "handle" is a zSeries I/O range. > > What would that mean to INTeL? Might look more like > > Did I miss something? That address range is valid on IA32.
Address range? Did you mean memory, IO ports, or interrupts? With zSeries, a device has one address. With IA32, a device is referenced by a vector. ... > > where "eth0" is an alias for the first ethernet adapter, > > regardless of the syntax of the local hardware. > > This is but one example of the kind of standard FreeVM-L was for. > > Wouldn't this kind of abstraction be valuable on zSeries just because > it removes the reference to IO addresses than have nothing to do with > anything other than where a device happens to be "plugged" in. Absolutely! ZSeries can benefit from this too.
