Craig,
> We've altered the script to identify the FBA devices,
> format them with 'mkfs' and then use the 'dd' to perform
> the block copy. When we try to boot the cloned copy
Just some thoughts - after you dd them, but before you try to IPL, are you
able to mount the new targets as file systems
modprobe vmcp
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We are pleased to announce the IBM Redbook "z/VM and Linux on IBM System
z: The Virtualization Cookbook for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0" is
*finally* published (lawyer+lawyer=slow:)) at
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247932.html
Thanks goes out to Sue Baloga, Bill Bitner
Is this vsftpd? If so, do you have local_enable set to YES in the
/etc/vsftpd.conf file?
# Uncomment this to allow local users to log in.
#
local_enable=YES
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Hi,
The "z/VM and Linux on IBM System z: The Virtualization Cookbook for SLES
11 SP1" is now an official IBM Redbook.
See http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247931.html?Open
Any feedback is welcome. Enjoy.
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Sergey,
> I changed parmfile for my system, but i use FTP as an install source:
>
> INSTALL=ftp://ibmsys3:xxx@10.1.1.1/image/
Just curious, why did you choose FTP over NFS?
I see the error:
> *** Could not find the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Repository.
So the installer can't find the RPMs
> Ideas?
I vaguely remember seeing a 4010 return code and vaguely associate it with
trying to make a physical volume (PV) out of a disk with a PV signature
already on it. That's probably why you ran into this the second time, but
not the first.
Did you reformat the disks at the "DASD Management"
Dave,
You can do a "ls /dev/system_vg" to see what logical volumes are there.
I would guess that this will work:
# lvextend -l +586 /dev/system_vg/home--vg
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> I followed parts of the Virtualization Cookbook for SLES 11 SP1 when I
installed the System (LPAR, no z/VM, so I skipped those).
> Now I need to add additional DASD to the LVM group.
> But all I can get is the Ncurses version of YaST, and I can't figure out
how to get to the Expert Partiti
Hi,
Does RHEL have the fping and tree RPMs (or commands from another package)
on s390x? I don't see them in the Packages/ directory of the install DVD
1, but perhaps they are available elsewhere. Thanks.
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Ruddy,
> Where do I get instructions on doing this??
In the book: z/VM and Linux on IBM System z: The Virtualization Cookbook
for SLES 11 SP1, Nov 2010 - describes z/VM 6.1 and Novell/SuSE SLES 11 SP1
- http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/mikemac/SG247931.pdf
There is also an associated tar file with
Srivinas,
After IPL of ZVM I get :
VSWITCH SYSTEM VSW1 STATUS IS READY.
DTCVSW1 is vswitch controller for 0503.P00
DTCVSW2 is vswitch controller for backup device 0506.P00
OK so you do have a VSWITCH defined, and it appears to be using real OSA
devices 503, 504 and 505 (with 506, 507 and 508 as
>From a 3270 console, after RHEL boots, what is the output of these
commands:
# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
# service network restart
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> Just have to move the LPARS and images.
Did you move this Linux from an LPAR to running under z/VM? If so, then
you'd probably need to assign the same OSA triplet to the virtual machine
(perhaps through three DEDICATE statements in the user directory entry for
the Linux virtual machine
> But we are unable to get the TCPIP running.
What are the error messages related to TCP/IP as Linux boots? Is the
virtual machine being attached to a VSWITCH? If so, are you sure there is
no error message regarding the VSWITCH when you log on to the virtual
machine?
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William,
> The installation fails with the window "Formatting failed":
I think this is a bu... um, a "known issue" :))
In the draft RHEL 6 Virtualization Cookbook, we write:
Important: If the minidisks 100-102 (dasdb-dasdd) have not been formatted
for Linux by dasdfmt before this install, you s
Hi everyone,
We'd like to announce two new draft Virtualization Cookbooks. See:
http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/mikemac/
These are only drafts. More good news is that they will eventually become
official IBM Redbooks. They include the following updates to previous
books:
-) The z/VM sections are
David,
> Can someone point me to a step by step on how to configure CMM
Cooperative memory management?
See the Redbook z/VM and Linux on IBM System z The Virtualization
Cookbook for SLES 10 SP2, section 11.7, on the Web at
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247493.html?Open
There's a count
Whoops, forgot to finish typing my thought.
> (yast is fine when everything works, but when
yast is fine when everything works, but when it doesn't, it's hard to know
in what state the PV/VG/LVs were left.
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John,
You wrote:
> Any known problem to define a file system on several 3390-3 (3 Gbyte)
We were recently burned and lost an LV on an old SLES 9 SP2 system. The
person working on extending the LV was using yast. Now I'm not saying
that yast has a bug (and if it did in SLES 9 it was probably fix
> I can't seem to figure out how to create a LVM VG at install time.
It's documented in z/VM and Linux on IBM System z: The Virtualization
Cookbook for SLES11 at the top of the page: http://linuxvm.org/present/
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Eric,
> then I get a "STORAGE ACTIVATION FAILED" popup
Yup, I got that too. From another system, I vmcp LINKed, chccwdev -e'd and
dasdfmt'd the minidisks onto which I was trying to install. Then I
chccwdev -d'd, and vmcp DETached them. Then the install worked fine.
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Neale,
> As the maintainer of the System z part of Mono, I have built s390x RPMs
for
> mono 2.8.1 for the following platforms:
> ...
Nice work! Thanks.
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Offer,
You wrote:
> Sadly that did not work...
I'm just curious. Early in this thread it was recommended that you trap
the message from SIGNAL SHUTDOWN. Usually about 15 seconds after signaling
a Linux virtual machine to shut down, I get a message. For example:
==> q linux01
LINUX01 - DSC
Mark,
> using tmpfs might be a drawback on memory constrained systems (which
appears to be the case in most Linux on System z shops).
Yep, that seems to be the major drawback. Thanks.
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Hello list,
I don't see a file system type of tmpfs in the installers. But it seems
easy enough to make /tmp a tmpfs file system after installation - just add
a line to /etc/fstab:
# grep /tmp /etc/fstab
tmpfs/tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
Then after reboot:
Donald,
> I think once I get this, I'll write a script to answer
> the eternal questions? "Which disk is file/directory x on"?
> and "Which real disk is /dev/"?
I started one (lsvols.sh). It reads through /etc/fstab and tries to parse
it and report what it finds, cross-referencing it with LVM. H
> All the issues of the RO compoennt
> are long since known and solved,
Did that include moving the RPM database from /var/lib/rpm/ to somewhere
under /etc/? I'm guessing the answer is "no way", but it just seems out
of place in /var/lib/rpm/.
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Leland,
> For you "shared root crazies" out there, how did you get /etc to unmount
...
Or perhaps a better question is "How did you get /etc to *mount*?"
As I recall the install programs will not allow /etc to be a mounted file
system. This makes some sense as the file system table (fstab) is in
Malcolm,
> Is there a way to check the NFS connection from the manual setup
program?
I first check that the NFS server can mount a file system locally. For
example, from the NFS server:
# mount localhost:/nfs/sles11/dvd1 /mnt
# ls /mnt
When that is working, I test from another system. Can you
Is there a cookbook anywhere to set up Velocity tools on two LPARs running
with CSE? Thanks.
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> We really would appreciate some hints here !
Why is the broadcast address in ifcfg-eth0 starting with 131.197?
Shouldn't it be 10.248?
Then the ifcfg-eth1 file looks different, so I might try something like:
# cd /etc/sysconfig/network
# mv ifcfg-eth1 ifcfg-eth1.orig
# cat ifcfg-eth0 | se
> the successful guests do not have DNS
> entries defined in our environment.
Having a happy DNS system makes life easier all around. Can you add the
new clones host names/i...@s to various /etc/hosts files?
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> Is the firewall dropping the packets?
Sob ... I must confess ... Since Thang and I sit on the same aisle in
Poughkeepsie, NY and work on the same systems, I had the luxury of SSHing
into the system and "hacking about". It was after much ado that I tried an
"iptables -L" and saw a bunch of rules i
> I cannot access the desktop using a VNC viewer.
Is the firewall dropping the packets?
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Hi list,
I haven't used "repos", zypper, yum, etc. too much so please bear with me
if these are basic questions.
I'm trying to install a software package onto a SLES 11 virtual machine.
One option is a tar file, but this software also has a "repository"
compatible with yum and zypper on the Inter
I wrote this:
> OK, we use *AF_IUCV sockets* all the time. So what is going away is the
> ability to *install* using IUCV. That is understandable.
Please let me clarify. After I sent the previous append I got an e-mail
from another IBMer with words to the effect of:
> It is only the "netiucv" dr
>> Ouch! We use IUCV all the time. Is there any reason for this?
> AF_IUCV sockets which is definitely not going away any time soon.
OK, we use *AF_IUCV sockets* all the time. So what is going away is the
ability to *install* using IUCV. That is understandable.
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> "The CTC (channel-to-channel) and IUCV (inter-user communication
> vehicle) are deprecated ...
Ouch! We use IUCV all the time. Is there any reason for this?
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Thanks for your complete reply. I will look into your questions and post
back
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# uname -a
Linux gpok231 2.6.27.42-0.1-default #1 SMP 2010-01-06 16:07:25 +0100 s390x
s390x s390x GNU/Linux
# cat /etc/*release
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (s390x)
VERSION = 11
PATCHLEVEL = 0
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I have a script that does a FLASHCOPY, then a "chccwdev -e" against the
newly copied disk. It seemed that the chccwdev command finished
asynchronously. In the past I had a "sleep 1" which seemed to allow enough
time for the command to finish, but I got comments that "udevsettle", or
"udevadm
Przemyslaw,
> I've written two programs to monitor mainframe system. They are not
> completed but might be useful to somebody
Thanks for sharing. I'll definitely take a look at them.
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> we may be able to configure PaceMaker to issue a #CP LOG off
> command, but how do we get this message across to the 2nd LPAR?
Just thinking out loud - could you set up authorized_keys files from the
PaceMaker node to the other nodes that may need to be shot in the head,
then the PaceMaker node
Florian,
> I was searching on the Internet regarding the best way of doing r/o root
> file system.
See http://www.vm.ibm.com/linux/dcss/
The paper describes *one way*, almost certainly not *the best way* :))
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There is a new paper, "Sharing and Maintaining SLES 11 Linux under z/VM
using DCSSs and an NSS", available on a new Web page at:
http://www.vm.ibm.com/linux/dcss/
In 2007, there was collaboration between IBM and Nationwide insurance that
resulted in the Redpaper "Sharing and maintaining Linux unde
Bernie,
> I am trying to apply kernel patch 20090402 ( 16 April 2009 ) and I
encounter the following :
> ...
I've seen these errors too (can't say for sure they were the exact
messages) after an "rpm -Uvh *". After the rpm command, I "echo $?" and
got a 0. I reboot and the kernel level was upgra
Barry,
> The /etc/sysconfig/hardware contains identical entries.
Are they really identical?
I have a system with two interfaces connected to NICs at 600 and 700. The
/etc/sysconfig/hardware configuration files are different:
# cat /etc/*release
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (s390x)
VERSION = 10
James,
> Will you be coming out with a Red Hat version of this same cookbook
No, sorry, there are no plans for one at this time.
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Hello lists (cross posted to linux-390 and ibmvm),
Marian Gasparovic and I are pleased to announce a new "cookbook" entitled
"z/VM and Linux on IBM System z: The Virtualization Cookbook for SLES
11". It is temporarily at the top of the page:
http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/mikemac/
The PDF weighs
Mark,
> You can do this, but I think you'll find that running Linux
> third-level will result in excruciatingly bad performance.
Well, not always - our team had some second-level z/VMs with third-level
Linuxes on a z990 - the performance went from acceptable to *bad* (but
perhaps not *excruciatin
Rick,
> What do y'all say?
I'm not Red Hat nor Novell, but I'll chip in because I think I'm covered
under "y'all" :))
We moved from writing about /local/ to /usr/local/ as /usr/local/ is in
the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS):
"The /usr/local hierarchy is for use by the system adminis
James,
> Can anyone point me to a sample or documentation to resolve this?
We did document a "travelling /home" using NFS+LDAP+automount in the books
"z/VM and Linux on IBM System z The Virtualization Cookbook for or " on the Web at
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247493.html
or
Patrick,
>> Trying to install a RedHat image by hand, and I get through the network
>> definitions, I skip the installation number, and get to the warning
about
>> formatting the first disk and data loss. I tell it to go ahead and
>> format,
>> and RedHat exits without doing anything.
This is rin
Samir,
> I'm looking for books dat he can use as a reference and for self-study,
especially for zlinux.
Most people learn by doing. If you have access to an LPAR, z/VM, Linux,
some DASD and IP addresses, you can go through the steps in the
Virtualization Cookbooks. There is one for Novell's SLES a
Mark,
> Like were most people ...
I like this one:
> - or add a dasd= in their kernel parameters
because then you can go to /etc/zipl.conf to see which disks (or disks and
"slots") the system is supposed to have. And if you do leave slots open,
you can add DASD more easily.
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Judson,
It seems you are starting with the SLES 10 Virtualization Cookbook on
linuxvm.org. We did update that for SLES 10 SP2, in the form of a redbook.
(see http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247493.html). That book
changed the methodology of making the golden image a mount point of the
cont
Ray,
A straw to grasp at - I see an extra space in the current /dev/ file name:
> Waiting for device
/dev/disk/by-id/ccw-HTC.5500010772.0800.3a.00010d0a-part1
to appear: ok
...
> Waiting for device /dev/disk/by-id/ccw-HTC.5500010772.0800.
3a.00010d0a00
> For example I managed to get it up boot but I couldn't get CMS to start:
>
> 03:14:54 ipl 190
> DMSWSP327I The installation saved segment could not be loaded
> z/VM V5.4.02008-10-13 07:27
>
> DMSDCS1083E Saved segment CMSPIPES does not exist
> DMSDCS1083E Saved segment CMSPIPES does not
Rick,
Thanks for the continued discussion. You write:
> there are two "console server" concepts ... LOG servers and
> collection of virtual console traffic, and then also CONTROL
> servers (terminal servers) where you get a command shell
> without the 3215 pain.
So let's think about this. Why do
Hi list,
Thanks for all the replies ...
I had forgotten about the terminal server paper. That looks like a good
approach as it is Linux-centric (not that the z/VM-centric solutions
aren't good too). It's also good to hear that the next SLES release will
be picking that up from s390 tools. I'm g
Hello list,
Has anyone ever tried to log the 3270 Linux consoles to a central server?
I see on http://freshmeat.net/projects/conserver/
"Conserver provides remote access to serial port consoles and logs all
data to a central host."
It would be nice to rarely need 3270 sessions, but also to be a
Cross-posted to LINUX-390 and IBMVM
Hello everyone,
We are pleased to announce a new paper and associated tar file on system
sharing with a read-only root file system. The PDF and tar files are
available on the top of the page: http://linuxvm.org/present/
The differences between this and the
> Xenia, wouldn't it be better if VMRM didn't have ...
> ...
> Our approach is to look in side (sic) the server ...
Moderator - order in the court please! Again, we're all trying to do what
is best for the z/VM/Linux customer.
Let's try to understand the difference between how VMRM and *this oth
Barton,
I wrote,
> ... could you point to some numbers ...
You replied, but I don't see a reference to any numbers.
You wrote in a reply:
> VMRM should have been enough, but it has very poor feed back
> mechanisms, and has no clue about what is happening inside Linux.
And:
> With that in mind, wi
Sam,
> We load the CMM module via
> /etc/sysconfig/kernel
> MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT="vmcp cmm"
>
> So what is it that we have turned on?
Good question. You've turned on CMM1 on Linux, but as I understand it,
there must also be a *collaborative* piece enabled on z/VM.
In both the latest Virtualizat
Oliver and Brad,
Yes, "vmhalt" works much better than "vmphalt". Thanks.
Ken,
You are right - not having a 3270 session going causes SIGNAL SHUTDOWN to
behave as I expected:
==> signal shutdown rh5rwmnt
...
HCPSIG2113I User RH5RWMNT has reported successful termination
==> q rh5rwmnt
HCPCQU045E R
Clovis,
> Please, try with vmphalt too.
>
> root=LABEL=/ vmpoff=LOGOFF vmphalt=LOGOFF BOOT_IMAGE=0
Thanks for the suggestion. I tried that and there was no difference:
# cat /proc/cmdline
cat /proc/cmdline
root=LABEL=/ vmpoff=LOGOFF vmphalt=LOGOFF BOOT_IMAGE=0
# halt
halt
Broadcast message fro
Marcy,
> have to change IPs and hostnames
I can understand that you have to change IP addresses. But do you have to
change hostnames? Maybe have a DNS system that maps the same hosts to new
i...@s? ... just a thought ...
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Hi,
Is anyone seeing the vmpoff=LOGOFF *not* working on RHEL 5.3?
I add this parm to zipl.conf, run zipl and reboot. Then I do a shutdown
(halt) from a 3270 session:
# cat /proc/cmdline
root=LABEL=/ vmpoff=LOGOFF BOOT_IMAGE=0
# halt
halt
Broadcast message from root (console) (Fri Aug 14 10:56:
John,
> In SLES 11, can you still code dasd= in the kernel parameter line of
zipl.conf?
I have used it in SLES 11 and it appears to work.
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Mark,
> I'd like to know where in the script it's hanging. Please do a "sh -x
chccwdev" command.
+ BUSIDLIST=0.0.21b7
+ '[' 0 -ne 0 ']'
+ '[' 0.0.21b7 = '' ']'
+ true
+ SAVEDATTRS=("${attrv...@]}")
+ for BUSID in '$BUSIDLIST'
+ SYSPATH=/sys/bus/ccw/devices/0.0.21b7
+ '[' '!' -r /sys/bus/ccw/devic
Peter,
Thanks for the info.
> Are there any messages in the output of 'dmesg' that indicate
> that device 21b7 may have a problem?
gpok225:~ # dmesg | grep 21b7
dasd(eckd): 0.0.21b7: 3390/0C(CU:3990/01) Cyl:500 Head:15 Sec:224
dasd(eckd): 0.0.21b7: (4kB blks): 36kB at 48kB/trk compatible disk
Klaus,
> Is it a LVM volume your trying to deactivate?
> And are there any strange LVM related processes running?
No and no.
Christian,
> Relevant-looking post from a Debian forum:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-s...@lists.debian.org/msg02156.html
Thanks for that - sounds similar, but i
Bobby,
> swapgen macro in the profile exec for the server and the mkswap and
swapon commands in rc.local
If you're using SWAPGEN you don't need the mkswap and swapon. SWAPGEN
makes the swap space. If you have it in /etc/fstab, as with any other swap
space, it will be turned on as part of normal L
Hello List,
Has anyone seen the "chccwdev -d" command never return? Not only does it
not return, but I can't kill it from another SSH session:
gpok225:~ # ps -ef | grep chccwdev
root 2901 2021 0 09:58 pts/000:00:00 /bin/sh /sbin/chccwdev -d
21b7
root 2943 2817 0 10:07 pts/1
Ray,
> is there a way to change the root= parm to be something
> rather less specific so that it will then boot in its new home?
I have found it hard to rectify by hand. You might save time in the long
run by reinstalling (if this is an option), and for every file system in
the Expert Partitioner
Rob,
> Maybe you could get a position at the ITSO as an editor and flag
> the phrase "kill a daemon"
I recently got a variable named "foo" edited out by an ITSO editor.
Because everyone knows that foo is a variant of fubar which is an acronym
with a *bad word* in it - "foo" might offend a reader.
Agblad,
> Here comes some feedback.
> It is a very good source for info in this matter, and explains a lot of
stuff you need to know.
Thanks!
> I have read the previous ones and tried to implement it.
> It was however tricky, most due to that reality changes (like: oops, we
need more space on /op
Hello everyone,
I am please to announce an updated paper "Sharing and maintaining SLES 10
SP2 Linux under z/VM", and an associated tar file with scripts and
configuration files.
The paper is available on the Web at:
http://linuxvm.org/present/misc/ro-root-S10.pdf
The tar file is available at:
Patrick,
> can someone kindly point me at any document describing
> how to set up and configure cmm-1?
We wrote about it in section 11.7 of the "z/VM and Linux on IBM System z
The Virtualization Cookbook for SLES 10 SP2", SG24-7493, on the Web at
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247493.htm
> you can not share an FCP based file system the same way
> it's possible to share (r/o) a 3390 based one
What about EDEVs? Doesn't then an EDEV just look like any other disk with
a 4 digit vaddr, except that it's FBA not ECKD?
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Rick,
> The RPM database is just one case. Where sharing of other filesystems
> is in play, one can readily recreate the RPM database.
> ...
An idea: In the first install of the golden image, how about creating a
small file system at /var/lib/rpm? You maintain RPMs, and thus the RPM
database, on
Bernard,
> Would it be possible to execute another rexx exec to manipulate the
linux files before issuing the ipl ?
How about a bash script in the boot run level.
See "Sharing and maintaining Linux under z/VM", REDP-4322, on the Web at
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp4322.html
It shows
Brad,
> RPMs are available in Fedora:
COOL! Thanks.
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Hello list,
Has anyone looked into ganglia as an open source monitoring tool? Is
there an RPM for it? I am told that libconfuse is a co-req, so I guess
that RPM would also be needed.
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.
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Hi,
> I have a Z9 and a copy of SUSE. Now what? What would
> be the best redbook or manual?
I may be a bit biased, but a lot of people have used the Redbook "z/VM and
Linux on IBM System z The Virtualization Cookbook for SLES 10 SP2",
SG24-7493, on the Web at
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts
> From a Linux guest, how do I determine which LPAR the guest is on ?
One way:
# grep "LPAR Name:" /proc/sysinfo | awk '{print $3}'
VM1
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Mark,
> Speaking of SLES11... I was recently asked if I knew of any SLES11 Beta
testers for System z.
> I said I didn't, so I thought I'd ask if anyone out there (aside from
IBM folks) is testing.
I wouldn't go as far as to say I'm (we're) testing, but we do have a copy
of RC3 installed.
We did
Bobby,
> I need to format 60 339-9 for use with a new Linux guest.
> ...
> unless there is a quicker way
One approach:
1) add the minidisks to the user directory and put online (e.g. add 60
minidisks as 200-23C)
2) add the DASD range to zipl.conf (e.g.: dasd=100,101,200-23C)
3) run zipl
4) reboot
Bernard,
> I would like to be able to query the number of guests on another LPAR
from a linux guest on a different LPAR.
How about:
ssh vmcp q n
This assumes SSH communication is possible between the Linuxes and vmcp is
installed and loaded.
"Mike MacIsaac"(845) 433-7061
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Hello IBMVM and linux-390 lists,
I was asked for help create 500 Linux servers on two LPARs for an internal
performance test. With some help, we got this accomplished in three days.
I thought it would be helpful to the community to write a paper on it.
It's 22 pages - about 14 describing the proce
Marcy,
> Same rule here (if only some of these vendors (cough ibm/tivoli
cough) would comprehend... )
I'm trying to comprehend, and will also try to bubble the message upwards
in my small sphere of influence.
So let me ask this to the list - what are the rules regarding key-based
authenticat
... sent this this AM - not sure where it went ... resending ...
Marcy,
> Same rule here (if only some of these vendors (cough ibm/tivoli
cough) would comprehend... )
I'm trying to comprehend, and will also try to bubble the message upwards
in my small sphere of influence.
So let me ask thi
> I would rather control the VDISK sizes in the directory instead of
having PROFILE EXEC
Makes me wonder - can you pass parameters into PROFILE EXEC by setting the
directory? e.g. "IPL CMS 300 524288 301 1048576"? Then use those
parameters with SWAPGEN to make the correct vaddrs and swap space siz
Tom,
>> The Redbook "z/VM and Linux on IBM System z The Virtualization
> Cookbook for SLES 10 SP2" has a section "11.2 ...
> It has the documentation for adding 2 volumes to a new logical
> group and moving an existing directory structure to that group.
Huh? Section 11.1 describes how to create a
Jihad
> here is a coy of the SLES10 PARM:
Just looking quickly I see:
> ramdisk_size=10016
The default shipped is "ramdisk_size=65536", I believe. I would stick with
that.
Also, did you do a "DEF STOR 512M" before installing, if by chance the
default virtual machine size is smaller than this? Yo
Hello linux-390 listers,
The tree command can be really useful. I thought it was on SLES a while
back but might have been mistaken. On RHEL 5.2 I find it:
# rpm -qf /usr/bin/tree
tree-1.5.0-4
On SLES I see no sign of it on a system with most development tools RPMs.
Nor do I see it in the RPM
Mark,
> If you really want to do cloning anyway, check out the Virtualization
> Cookbook for SLES10 SP2:
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247493.html
Yes, thanks. The cloning method described in the cookbooks makes a lot of
assumptions about z/VM being the underlying hypervisor. However,
Rick,
> The great thing about SMIT is that it reports the line-mode commands
> which it uses.
I totally agree with this. The "GUI" in a sense taught you line commands.
And the second best thing about SMIT (not smitty) was that the little
running dude would fall on his face when there was an error
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