Re: 7.2 Was: IBM i 7.1 Technology Refresh 7 available Nov. 15-CLARIFICATION on POWER5

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Absolutely. In fact folks at IBM have told me that. So for example you 
have a POWER6 machine with HSL loops and you wish to run 7.2 on it, you 
simply guest the partition and virtualize everything.


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On 10/16/2013 10:39 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> <snip>
>       [IBM i 7.1 partitions>->(BECOMES)->: Partitions with the release
> after IBM i 7.1 cannot own any HSL/RIO or IOP hardware, but they can be
> virtual clients. (This support statement was already true for POWER7 and
> later. This planning statement specifically applies to POWER6
> technology-based systems running (ADDED)->[the release after] IBM i 7.1.)
> </snip>
>
> Would guesting 7.2, either
> - on a host 7.1 partition
> - or on VIOS
> insulate you from the above statement?  Granted all affected I/O (disk,
> tape controllers, etc) would have to either be on supported hardware or be
> virtualized also.
>
>
> Rob Berendt