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Table 4-9 Operands of the VMLAN MACIDRange statement
4.6.4 Create a virtual Network Interface Card
You must create a virtual Network Interface Card (NIC) for each guest machine.
After it is defined, this NIC can be connected to the Guest LAN. To the guest
operating system, the NIC devices look like a range of OSA devices. The NIC
can be defined permanently through a User Directory statement or temporarily
(for the life of the Guest’s session) through a CP command.
4.6.5 NIC definition in the user directory
To create a virtual Network Interface Card that will remain permanently defined
to a VM guest machine ...