June 2003
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
10h 33m
English
At its core, the z/VM operating system is a hypervisor. The hypervisor can present virtual copies of the underlying hardware resources that it controls to operating systems running on a virtual machine. Users can run multiple images of other operating systems as “guests” of the hypervisor, sharing the same single set of real CPUs and I/O facilities, as shown in Figure 7-1.

Any operating system that can run on an S/390 or z/Architecture mainframe can also run under the ...