So according to the statements below...I CAN use SUSE SLES7 to play the guest lan game, using QDIO instead of virtual hipersockets? Am I correct in this assumption? Any testimony from someone who has setup guest lans with SUSE SLES7? Tia Dave Myers
Adam said... Now, you're using SuSE, so that may be a stumbling block too. IIRC, the totally-free version (beer, not speech, for those of you keeping score at home) of SuSE doesn't do HiperSockets. But if you have either the $500 trial or a support contract then you have access to the service releases, which do let you use HiperSockets. And if you don't, then (IMHO) you shouldn't be using SuSE--if you're going to be your own support, you may as well be your own support with a less antiquated Rober said... No hardware hipersockets doesn't necessarily mean that you can't use the guest LAN. Are you using the evaluation version of SuSE 7.2 or are you using the old SuSE with the 2.2.16 kernel? If the former you can define a guest LAN and set up SuSE to use it. If the latter, then you are definitely stuck using point to point. Carlos said: I think that as long as your distribution of Linux supports QDIO (which 2.2.16 does) you can define a "qdio" (instead of a "hipers" one) guest lan under zVM 4.3 and use qdio/qeth. (I think! haven't tried it) Carlos :-)
