Scott wrote: "Is this simply an extension of LPAR technology, or is it z/VM like hipervisor in the firmware? Is there anything new here for z/Series? Again, z/OS is mentioned, z/VM is not."
The "virtualization" is not the kind we're used in VMWARE or z/VM or LPARs where a platform runs many copies of the different OS's. What this appears to be is a "virtual" layer between the OS/hardware and the application. The applications develop to the "virtualization layer" specs and hardware/OS vendor writes the hardware/OS specific implementation. This seems to be parallel to the Linux implemenations on various platforms - there is a part of the kernel that is hardware specific and the rest of Linux is a "virtualized" set of services that specify how the hardware implementation should react. If you look at DB2 UDB, there is an attempt to run it on all platforms. It would be simpler if they had to develop to a single set of specs and then each OS implement them. I would suspect that other software vendors would like the same capabilities. It would free them from limiting their market to a single platform (does windoze come to mind?) ===== Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries "Computer are useless.They can only give answers." Pablo Picasso __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
