Re: Dump a linux guest from z/VM

2016-02-26 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 02/26/2016 at 11:16 GMT, Kirk Bradley wrote: > Don?t you wish guest A could map guest B?s real memory as a secondary address > space on command and then you can use A to dump as far and fast as you want w/o > perturbing anything at all in B - it?s already stopped

Re: Dump a linux guest from z/VM

2016-02-26 Thread Kirk Bradley
VMDUMP has been slow (no, super slo) since the first day it existed. I can’t for the life of me figure out why that needs to be so but it is. Don’t you wish guest A could map guest B’s real memory as a secondary address space on command and then you can use A to dump as far and fast as you

Re: Dump a linux guest from z/VM

2016-02-26 Thread Robert J Brenneman
first make sure you have enough empty spool space to contain the entire guest's memory. IE for a 1 GB guest have 1 GB of spool available. then from the broken guest's console : #CP VMDUMP While you wait for that to run, read: http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/dw/linux390/docu/l26edt00.pdf Pay

Re: Dump a linux guest from z/VM

2016-02-26 Thread Alan Ackerman
We use stand-alone dump. Need's to be set up but you can do that from another guest. It will stop your server when you IPL it though. See the correct edition of Using the Dump Tools on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/dw/linux390/docu/les3dt02.pdf I don't

Dump a linux guest from z/VM

2016-02-26 Thread Victor Echavarry Diaz
We can't login a Linux guest ,but is working. We open an issue with novell, they asked for a DUMP. But because we can't login, we can take the dump. Our question is, can we made a dump from z/vm so Novell can use it? We have SLES 11SP4 under z/VM 6.3 SSI. Regards, Victor Echavarry System

Re: IPL from SAN

2016-02-26 Thread Steffen Maier
On 02/26/2016 06:39 PM, Rothman, Peter wrote: We completed a kickstart 'to SAN' with RHLE 7.2. A linux 'shutdown reboot' worked OK but now a IPL from the FCP device fails. What am I missing? Here is the console: q loaddev PORTNAME C05076E4 5D1CLUN BOOTPROG 2 The

Re: IPL from SAN

2016-02-26 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 2/26/2016 at 12:39 PM, "Rothman, Peter" wrote: > We completed a kickstart 'to SAN' with RHLE 7.2. > A linux 'shutdown reboot' worked OK but now a IPL from the FCP device fails. > What am I missing? > > Here is the console: > q loaddev > PORTNAME C05076E4

IPL from SAN

2016-02-26 Thread Rothman, Peter
We completed a kickstart 'to SAN' with RHLE 7.2. A linux 'shutdown reboot' worked OK but now a IPL from the FCP device fails. What am I missing? Here is the console: q loaddev PORTNAME C05076E4 5D1CLUN BOOTPROG 2 BR_LBA SCPDATA

How To Make A Raspberry Pi SuperComputer!

2016-02-26 Thread Dave Jones
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