Date: 29 Mar 2004 07:19:43 -0500 From: Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com> To: Charon <charon@cimbali.dssrg.curtin.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mainframe support Message-ID: <1080562783.3107.9.camel@chaucer> In-Reply-To: <200403290441.i2T4fscK023387@cimbali.dssrg.curtin.edu.au> References: <200403290441.i2T4fscK023387@cimbali.dssrg.curtin.edu.au>
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On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 23:41, Charon wrote: > IBM is currently pushing Linux on its big iron offerings. What similar > capacity options are available for FreeBSD based installations? Has IBM > actually ported Linux or are they running a smoke and mirrors setup > with Linux running in a vmware like environment? > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" IBM implemented its VM Operating system many years ago. It is capable of running guest operating systems that "believe" they are running on a bare machine. VM could be considered "prior art" for VMWare. Linux runs as a guest OS under VM, along with the conventional mainframe OS, MVS. VM can run many copies of Linux simultaneously. I am not sure it is quite fair to call this a "smoke and mirrors" port. Disclaimer: I don't work for IBM, and someone from the company might like to explain this more accurately?
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