>>> On 9/21/2016 at 04:45 PM, Rick Troth <r...@casita.net> wrote: > On 09/15/2016 03:49 AM, Stefan Raspl wrote: >> QEMU v2.7 is out! See >> kvmonz.blogspot.com/2016/09/qemu-v27-released.html for a list of >> highlights for KVM on z. > > Speaking of which ... does anyone know the ins-and-outs of using QEMU > for z "guests" without KVM?
I'm not aware of any way to do that. > I've used QEMU to present other architectures. (Was running SPARC just > last week.) But QEMU is very PC-oriented, so it's tough to wade through > the doco for mainframe hints. Will QEMU even do 3390 or 3370? or OSA or > LCS? The para-virt disk and NIC are nice for a lot of use cases, but To my knowledge, no. All that is there are the virtio-ccw devices. > they present a short-fall in the grand picture of full capability we all > hope to see. > Hercules works fine. Nothing wrong with it, except that libvirt won't > talk to it. Ah! Now there's a novel idea: hypervisors and emulators > which can be managed through a common utility or protocol. So QEMU is > interesting if perhaps I can launch 'virt-mangler' and bring my > Linux/390 into the same console as the other kiddos. This works if you have libvirtd running on the host LPAR. I've used it many times. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
