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> you can not license z/VM Isn't the whole point of z/VM that you can't tell it's there from the guest OS?
by derleth 14y ago
> you can not license z/VM
Isn't the whole point of z/VM that you can't tell it's there from the guest OS?
- greenyoda 14y agoThe main point of z/VM is that you can run multiple instances of different operating systems on the same physical hardware. (It's sort of amazing that IBM started developing this virtualization software in the mid-1960s.) And you can most certainly tell it's there, since there's an API to call z/VM services (which wouldn't exist on the bare hardware) from a virtual machine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM_(operating_system)#Hypervisor_interface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM_(operating_system)#Hypervis...