Re: Updated paper available - "Sharing and maintaining SLES 10 SP2 Linux under z/VM"

2009-07-03 Thread David Boyes
> Thank's David :) > It is as you say, don't configure inside the Linux servers if you don't > have to. You're welcome. It sounds like a pretty cool system. > We did some tries with DHCP as well at first, but it did not work due > to we only had IP-packets sent > via vswitches, and not ethernet

Re: Updated paper available - "Sharing and maintaining SLES 10 SP2 Linux under z/VM"

2009-07-03 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Scott Rohling wrote: > Agreed - that is clever ..    I've played around with tags and PUN files to > get info to Linux, but this is much more direct.   Sweet - thanks, Tore! Actually, if you make them like this SET PFx fconfig eth0 192.168.0.10 netmask 255.255.255.

Re: Updated paper available - "Sharing and maintaining SLES 10 SP2 Linux under z/VM"

2009-07-03 Thread Richard Troth
[selected responses interleaved] Agblad Tore wrote: > Here comes some feedback. Awesome. Thanks! This is exciting stuff. By the way, you people at Volvo make good cars. > The bind mount is a source of failure, or not ? > What happens if it does not work for some reason ? > I guess the origina

Re: Updated paper available - "Sharing and maintaining SLES 10 SP2 Linux under z/VM"

2009-07-03 Thread Agblad Tore
ux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of David Boyes [dbo...@sinenomine.net] Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 15:39 To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Updated paper available - "Sharing and maintaining SLES 10 SP2 Linux under z/VM" > > About creating clones, we have made another approach.

Re: Updated paper available - "Sharing and maintaining SLES 10 SP2 Linux under z/VM"

2009-07-02 Thread David Boyes
> > Would be nice if CP really did have user environment variables :) Use the CP tag field for a virtual 3800 printer. 8K worth of space to store various useful stuff that will survive IPL of the virtual machine, settable outside the OS, etc, etc. Very easy to write a little thing that loads

Re: Updated paper available - "Sharing and maintaining SLES 10 SP2 Linux under z/VM"

2009-07-02 Thread Scott Rohling
Agreed - that is clever ..I've played around with tags and PUN files to get info to Linux, but this is much more direct. Sweet - thanks, Tore! Scott On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Marcy Cortes wrote: > Tore Agblad wrote: > > > >To have this working in SLES10 : > >We set a number of FKeys

Re: Updated paper available - "Sharing and maintaining SLES 10 SP2 Linux under z/VM"

2009-07-02 Thread Marcy Cortes
Tore Agblad wrote: >To have this working in SLES10 : >We set a number of FKeys in the VM profile to for example: IPNR=1.2.3.4 >and MASK=255.255.255.0 and GATEWAY=1.2.3.0 and so on. >Then we get these values via vmcp in /etc/init.d/boot.local, and sets the >ipconfig values. >And whatever you need

Re: Updated paper available - "Sharing and maintaining SLES 10 SP2 Linux under z/VM"

2009-07-02 Thread David Boyes
> > About creating clones, we have made another approach. > > Every server configures the network/ip itself at every boot, > Configures the network at *every* boot? Why not just at first boot? Do > you > never put the real IP address, host name and other values in /etc? Pretty much DHCP, without t

Re: Updated paper available - "Sharing and maintaining SLES 10 SP2 Linux under z/VM"

2009-07-02 Thread Agblad Tore
@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Updated paper available - "Sharing and maintaining SLES 10 SP2 Linux under z/VM" 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 one

Re: Updated paper available - "Sharing and maintaining SLES 10 SP2 Linux under z/VM"

2009-07-02 Thread Michael MacIsaac
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

Re: Updated paper available - "Sharing and maintaining SLES 10 SP2 Linux under z/VM"

2009-07-02 Thread Agblad Tore
: Linux on 390 Port [linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Michael MacIsaac [mike...@us.ibm.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 17:58 To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Updated paper available - "Sharing and maintaining SLES 10 SP2 Linux under z/VM" Hello everyone, I am please to annou

Updated paper available - "Sharing and maintaining SLES 10 SP2 Linux under z/VM"

2009-07-01 Thread Michael MacIsaac
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: