Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-28 Thread Higgins, Neil S
be registered to continue in full run mode. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shimon Lebowitz Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 6:57 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system Why would

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-28 Thread Mark Post
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 7:04 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marcy Cortes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I remember hearing that's how it worked here for Windows and RedHat Linux too. Not sure about SuSE Linux since we don't run that on Intel. SLES on Intel is licensed per box. As

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-27 Thread Gentry, Stephen
and not p370. Inquiring minds . . yadda, yadda Steve G. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Thornton Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 6:31 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-27 Thread Adam Thornton
On Mar 27, 2008, at 8:33 AM, Gentry, Stephen wrote: Hmm, what about the i370 aka Bigfoot? Other than physically, how did the p370 differ from the s/370? To quote from a document/webpage attributed to you: quote Linux on the System/390 is an idea that has been being kicked around since Linux's

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-27 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Adam Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Modern Linuxes don't run on p390-class machines anymore, I think. Halfword immediate instructions maybe? With a proper support contract you could get the microcode that supports halfway immediate instructions. Early

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-27 Thread David Boyes
Modern Linuxes don't run on p390-class machines anymore, I think. Halfword immediate instructions maybe? With a proper support contract you could get the microcode that supports halfway immediate instructions. Didn't that require a p390e card or an IS, though? I don't think the MCA

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-27 Thread Gary M. Dennis
Subject: Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Wade Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 2:01 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-27 Thread Dave Wade
, Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 1:33 PM Subject: Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system Hmm, what about the i370 aka Bigfoot? Other than physically, how did the p370 differ from the s/370? To quote from a document/webpage attributed

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-27 Thread Marcy Cortes
specific purpose file system Why would the Microsoft Licensing be tricky? Expensive perhaps as you need one license per virtual machine, but not tricky... Is this really true??? One per *virtual*, not *real*, machine? If I were two run two copies of Windows on *one* PC, using e.g. VM-Ware, I would

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-27 Thread David Boyes
Is this really true??? One per *virtual*, not *real*, machine? If I were two run two copies of Windows on *one* PC, using e.g. VM-Ware, I would be required to pay twice??? Depends on what version of Windows. Some versions have restrictions on where they can legally run, and there are

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-27 Thread Jon Nolting
Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shimon Lebowitz Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 3:57 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system Why would the Microsoft Licensing be tricky? Expensive perhaps as you need one license per virtual

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-26 Thread Stephen Frazier
Sounds very interesting. I hope you present your method at a conference sometime. Even if it isn't a commercial success the idea is intriguing. Gary M. Dennis wrote: Emulation would be a non-starter for a production environment. I would describe this system as a single pass code segment

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-26 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 03/26/2008 at 12:20 EDT, Gary M. Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Emulation would be a non-starter for a production environment. I would describe this system as a single pass code segment translation system with conditional block invalidation. We have been using VM for 20 of

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-26 Thread Mark Pace
Me too! Me too Give me a z10 and I'll try it. Adam -- Mark Pace Mainline Information Systems

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-26 Thread Dave Jones
David L. Craig wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:29:59AM -0400, Alan Altmark wrote: An excellent goal. As a point of comparison, have you ever run Windows using the Bochs emulator on zLinux? If so, on what machine? (I'd like to see someone try it on a z10.) Are you saying or asking if has

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-26 Thread David L. Craig
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:29:59AM -0400, Alan Altmark wrote: An excellent goal. As a point of comparison, have you ever run Windows using the Bochs emulator on zLinux? If so, on what machine? (I'd like to see someone try it on a z10.) Are you saying or asking if has run Bochs on a

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-26 Thread David L. Craig
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:59:00AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: Dave, yes, Boch, running Windows NT itself, has been hosted on top of a zLinux guest, running under z/VM. This feat was accomplished by my colleague Adam Thornton, who clearly has way too much free time on his hands. ;-) While

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-26 Thread Richard Troth
As Dave (Jones) said, yes, it's been done. But Dave (Craig), while it *is* cool, don't be shocked at this feat. BOCHS is a pure emulator. It can be built on *any* HW platform (System p, Sun SPARC, or an ARM hand-held, not only System z) and will emulate the INTeL instruction set with a

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-26 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 03/26/2008 at 12:13 EDT, David L. Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, Google is my friend. There's even a Debian package, I see. I, too, would be very interested is performance numbers from state-of-the-art hardware. There could be virtualization uses at some point. My shop

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-26 Thread David L. Craig
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:32:58PM -0400, Alan Altmark wrote: I think you'll find the MP3K is just too slow (CPU speed). That was the point of my talking about a z10; it's a much faster CPU than even a z9. But as an experiment to determine feasibility of the technology it would be ok.

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-26 Thread Adam Thornton
On Mar 26, 2008, at 11:12 AM, David L. Craig wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:59:00AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: Dave, yes, Boch, running Windows NT itself, has been hosted on top of a zLinux guest, running under z/VM. This feat was accomplished by my colleague Adam Thornton, who clearly has

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-26 Thread Gary M. Dennis
Early in the development cycle, we had both QEMU and Bochs running on z/System version of Redhat (CentOS 5.4). The Name two movie stars and a dog joke applied to both emulators running in this environment. We concluded early on that we had to get rid of Linux and the emulation layer. Both would

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-26 Thread Dave Jones
Hi, Gary. So, let me see if I got this straightyour organization has developed some sort of application, which runs on CMS, that allows Windows-based code to be executed? Way cool, dude. Good luck with it, and could you please keep this informed as to your progress on this? Given your

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-26 Thread Mark Wheeler
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Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-26 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Wheeler Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 1:35 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system If such a beast were to materialize, would

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-26 Thread David Boyes
We have been using VM for 20 of our 27 years in business. A development environment without it has never been considered an option. Now that's the sort of quote that should appear in IBM marketing materials. -- db

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-26 Thread Peter . Webb
The tricky part about this is the Microsoft licensing. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: March 26, 2008 14:41 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-26 Thread David Boyes
Are you saying or asking if has run Bochs on a mainframe? That would be a very significant achievement. Not very. Adam's done it on our MP3K (RIP -- check the archives for a URL with the screenshot of WinNT beating the living daylights out of our poor abused H70). Don't recommend it on that

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-26 Thread Dave Wade
purpose file system The tricky part about this is the Microsoft licensing. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: March 26, 2008 14:41 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-26 Thread David Boyes
There could be virtualization uses at some point. My shop is a heavy MS shop and trying to retire their Multiprise 3000. It would be nice to pilot the migration of some Windows servers onto our lightly loaded VM/ESA system. Wait for the new hardware, at least if you have anything else

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-26 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Wade Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 2:01 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system Why would the Microsoft Licensing be tricky

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-26 Thread David Boyes
Systems such as z/OS do not run on an IFL due to some differences in the microcode loaded. z/OS doesn't run because it deliberately issues an instruction subcode that is not implemented on an IFL and then craters in a specified way when the instruction fails. If somebody wanted to, they

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-26 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 03/26/2008 at 11:01 EDT, Mark Pace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Me too! Me too Give me a z10 and I'll try it. If I find any on the sidewalk or near the storm drain I will save them for you and Adam. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-26 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 03/26/2008 at 03:17 EDT, David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: z/OS doesn't run because it deliberately issues an instruction subcode that is not implemented on an IFL and then craters in a specified way when the instruction fails. One might infer from your characterization that

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-26 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 2:26 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system On Wednesday, 03/26/2008 at 03:17 EDT

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-26 Thread David Boyes
z/OS doesn't run because it deliberately issues an instruction subcode that is not implemented on an IFL and then craters in a specified way when the instruction fails. One might infer from your characterization that z/OS added code to intentionally crater itself on an IFL, and that would

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-26 Thread Stephen Frazier
I would assume he needs VM because he needs several different versions of z/OS to support his products. If your developing a z/OS product you need to have all the supported versions of z/OS to test it on. David Boyes wrote: We have been using VM for 20 of our 27 years in business. A

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-26 Thread Adam Thornton
On Mar 26, 2008, at 1:55 PM, David Boyes wrote: Not very. Adam's done it on our MP3K (RIP -- check the archives for a URL with the screenshot of WinNT beating the living daylights out of our poor abused H70). Don't recommend it on that hardware. I think it was actually a P390 or IS.

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-26 Thread Gentry, Stephen
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system Early in the development cycle, we had both QEMU and Bochs running on z/System version of Redhat (CentOS 5.4). The Name two movie stars and a dog joke applied to both emulators running in this environment. We

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-26 Thread Gentry, Stephen
] On Behalf Of Adam Thornton Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 4:12 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system On Mar 26, 2008, at 1:55 PM, David Boyes wrote: Not very. Adam's done it on our MP3K (RIP -- check the archives for a URL

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-26 Thread Dave Wade
Ware. I guess they could buy VM Ware first... Dave G4UGM Illegitimi Non Carborundum - Original Message - From: McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:09 PM Subject: Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system -Original

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-26 Thread Adam Thornton
On Mar 26, 2008, at 3:23 PM, Gentry, Stephen wrote: It will work on an IS (been there done that) but painfully slow. Would the p390 actually have to be a p390e? I started to work on it a few times on a p370 but kept getting side tracked on other stuff. Steve G Mine *was* a p390E. I don't

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-26 Thread Schuh, Richard
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gentry, Stephen Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 10:03 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system Seems like Johnny Carson did this joke as The Great Carnac. Do you remember what the answers are/were? I

z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-25 Thread Gary M. Dennis
We need a lightweight file system to support z/VM i86 guest operating systems. A high speed garbage can of sorts. Is anyone aware of a VM open source file system port with some of the characteristics listed below. Such a system might enable us to add the functionality needed to support these

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-25 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 03/25/2008 at 04:26 EDT, Gary M. Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone aware of a VM open source file system port with some of the characteristics listed below. Such a system might enable us to add the functionality needed to support these guests without starting at zero. It

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-25 Thread Dave Jones
Another possibility would be to exploit the infrastructure that the RSK provides.. DJ Alan Altmark wrote: On Tuesday, 03/25/2008 at 04:26 EDT, Gary M. Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone aware of a VM open source file system port with some of the characteristics listed below.

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-25 Thread Gary M. Dennis
The callable services benchmarks we conducted with BFS ran between 8 and 10 times longer than the test set running with the CMS file system. Assuming a cluster of 125 Windows® 2K z/VM guests and using I/O counts generated by Win 2K on native Intel hardware the results of extrapolating the I/O

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-25 Thread Peter . Webb
- Lightweight specific purpose file system The callable services benchmarks we conducted with BFS ran between 8 and 10 times longer than the test set running with the CMS file system. Assuming a cluster of 125 Windows(r) 2K z/VM guests and using I/O counts generated by Win 2K on native Intel hardware

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-25 Thread Gary M. Dennis
Subject: Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system The callable services benchmarks we conducted with BFS ran between 8 and 10 times longer than the test set running with the CMS file system. Assuming a cluster of 125 Windows(r) 2K z/VM guests and using I/O counts generated by Win

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-25 Thread Stephen Frazier
Are you attempting to write a windows emulator that runs under VM? Looking at your companies web site it looks like you mostly sell products that run under z/OS. If you can do this there will be a lot of interest. Gary M. Dennis wrote: Months ago. The development team was so focused on

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

2008-03-25 Thread Gary M. Dennis
Emulation would be a non-starter for a production environment. I would describe this system as a single pass code segment translation system with conditional block invalidation. We have been using VM for 20 of our 27 years in business. A development environment without it has never been