Re: [Qemu-devel] Hipervisor

[Mark Williamson]

> I guess you are talking about IBM's VM but it only runs on
> zSeries(latest incarnation of S/360) hardware and not on POWER.

As well as z/VM for their really big iron, IBM recently introduced a 
hypervisor for their POWER-based machines.  See: 
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/ondemand/ve/

I've not used it myself - the hardware's rather out of my price range ;-)

Cheers,
Mark


> >Imagine VMware slimmed down and ported to run on the bare hardware so
>
> it doesn't need a host operating
>
> >system and you've got a hypervisor.  Generally, the hypervisor
> >logically partitions resources and runs a seperate operating system
> >inside each partition.
>
> Can't this be done using customized bare bones Linux so that all it runs
> is QEMU and its supporting utilities, possibly in text mode? May be the
> current active guest (the one that the user is interacting with) can be
> given almost full control of devices like video, removable media, sound
> card etc. BTW I'm out of my depth here so I might be very wrong. Any
> comments, anyone?
>
> >Anyway, being able to play around with (emulated) high-end hardware
>
> that was
>
> >designed for hypervisors would be cool.
>
> Unfortunately no, the problem there is that IBM won't allow you to run
> their software on Hercules unless you pay real big $$$$$$, not even for
> non-commercial purposes. For this reason the Hercules community is
> forced to either run z/Linux (Linux/390) or use the last free version of
> MVS dated around 1978. And yes, IBM operating systems used to be free (
> and open source ! ), you just had to buy the hardware.
>
> Mohammad
>
>
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