Adam: A VSWITCH has a few other unique characteristics compared to a Guest LAN (IEEE VLAN support, for example) but that wasn't my point. It was that you get VSWITCH support on any platform that supports z/VM.
Romney On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 19:20:52 -0600 Adam Thornton said: >On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 18:54, Romney White wrote: >> Mark: >> >> VSWITCH has an *optional* associated OSA Express device. If you don't >> have one, you don't have external connectivity, but a VSWITCH is just >> really a QDIO Guest LAN with an optional associated real QDIO device. > >Fair enough, but isn't the point of the VSWITCH to bridge your Linux >guests into an external LAN, rather than VM (or Linux) having to act as >a router? In which case, a VSWITCH without external connectivity is, >well, a guest LAN, innit? > >Adam
