Regarding QEMU, the overhead is not that big. On a z/990 on an LPAR with 2 IFLs it consumed 50% during installation. Afterwards as long as its idle it doesn't take too much processing power.
But as mentioned in one of the other posts, z/VOS sounds really interesting. BR Florian On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 5:52 PM, David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So my question is: do any of you know any way to achieve this "invention" > > our customer demands from us ? > > Bochs works, but at a tremendous overhead cost -- on a MP3000 it was just > about 2 full CPUs to run one Windows instance. It's not as bad now, but it > still is a pretty significant hit. QEMU also works (at least on OpenSolaris > it does), but with similar performance penalties. > > You don't say what the workload is, but you should strongly consider moving > it native and getting rid of the Windows pieces ASAP. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > -- Best regards Florian Bilek ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
