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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Khan, Mohammad" <MKhan@bmi.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Hipervisor
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:55:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200412161555.45410.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C7EAC5D737E37E45A83D12122C6A28CD0182891B@NAMAIL03.bmi.org>

> >It would be really cool if eventually QEMU could emulate IBM POWER
> >based servers well enough to run IBM's hypervisor.  The hypervisor
> >virtualizes the hardware for the operating system(s) proper and
> >provides resource partitioning.
>
> 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. BTW
> there are already emulators for IBM's zSeries including an open source
> emulator called Hercules. Hercules runs on Linux as well as Windows and
> Mac.

The POWER5 chips also contain hardware partitioning features to allow running 
a hypervisor. I'm not sure if these have actually been released yet though.

Paul

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-12-16 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-16 15:31 [Qemu-devel] Hipervisor Khan, Mohammad
2004-12-16 15:52 ` Mark Williamson
2004-12-16 15:55 ` Paul Brook [this message]
2004-12-18 14:34 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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