Re: System i LPARs

["Mark S. Waterbury" <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxx>]

Hi, guys:

VMWare only runs on Intel platforms, and can only virtualize Intel 
virtual machines.
In the same vein, the "father" of LPARs was VM/370 -- that OS created 
multiple System/370 virtual machines on a single host IBM System/370.
That's why you must run a Linux PowerPC distribution on iSeries or 
pSeries LPARs, and not just your "garden variety" Linux distro. for Intel.
You could run VMWare on the IXS card, and then run Linux or Windows 
under VMWare on the IXS,  and  you would  be able to use the "virtual 
DASD" and "virtual Ethernet" etc. provided by OS/400 or i5/OS ...
Or, you could run an "emulator" like Bochs or QEMU,  that allows to 
emulate a different  processor architecture than the underlying 
hardware, but the overhead for doing so is usually so great that this is 
really only of "academic interest."
Does that "make sense"?

Cheers,

Mark S. Waterbury

> Larry Bolhuis wrote:
> Pete,
>
>   OK Now you got me wondering. I love the concept of virtualization but 
> which tool are you using to run windoze on a System i Linux partition? 
> Maybe I've been sleeping under a rock but the procesors are 
> 'significantly different' so I hadn't thought this to be possibe?
>   - Larry
>
> Pete Helgren wrote:
>   
> > A total virtualization convert!  I love it!  So get your head around 
> > this one.  Run a Linux LPAR and then put VMWare or some other 
> > virtualization engine on it and run Windows on that.  Theoretically 
> > possible. Blows the mind...
> > We have two customers running Linux LPAR's (SUSE) and use it for web 
> > serving.  Works like I champ and I took a snapshot of the server when it 
> > was stable and I can always restore that image if I need a quick recovery. 
> >
> > Pete
> >   
> >     
>