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External networking requires a physical network connection. OSA cards can
share a number of physical connections, so if the number of Linux images is
relatively small, an external network is viable and recommended over IUCV due
to the previous limitations. See 2.2, “Planning networking” on page 15 for
information on OSA cards.
16.2.2 VIF partitions and paging space
For each Linux image, VIF requires space on DASD for partitions (disks) and for
paging. This allows real storage to be shared among the Linux images. The
amount of space for partitions depends on the amount of read/write space each
Linux image requires and how much can reasonably be shared read-only. The
amount of paging space depends on the virtual memory assigne ...