Re: [Qemu-devel] Hipervisor

[Paul Brook]

> >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