On Fri, 18 Sep 2015 09:53:08 EST Martha McConaghy <u...@vm.marist.edu> wrote:
> Actually, I did do a VM install to get a running RHEL 7 system they > could play with. However, the project they are working on involves > adapting software that currently runs in an appliance to be installed > into an LPAR. Its been tough because these guys have next to no > Linux skills at all. So, besides giving them a running RHEL 7 system > to play with, myself and a colleague have been trying to educate them > on how LPARs and HMCs work in general. You might want to have a look at kiwi (which is available with SLES). This gives you the possibility to actually build appliances not only for SLES, but also for RHEL. It is possible to build appliances for both, zFCP and DASD. You only have to dump the image to disk and bootup. At SUSE, we even have our build service worker appliance (the system that really builds packages on mainframe) setup as kiwi appliance that is deployed on LPAR by just doing a load via snipl. I have done a live presentation once that did an introduction, building a wordpress appliance, and deployment to LPAR within 45 minutes... Berthold -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Berthold Gunreben Build Service Team http://www.suse.de/ Maxfeldstr. 5 SUSE Linux GmbH, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
