From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Cey9i-00029p-It for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:07:06 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Cey9e-00021e-RQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:07:03 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Cey9c-00021C-IY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:07:02 -0500 Received: from [65.74.133.9] (helo=mail.codesourcery.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1Cexyv-0003CR-Iq for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2004 10:55:57 -0500 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Hipervisor Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:55:45 +0000 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200412161555.45410.paul@codesourcery.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: "Khan, Mohammad" > >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