Re: [Qemu-devel] Hipervisor

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 09:31 -0600, Khan, Mohammad wrote:

> >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. 

Hrm... You seem to forget iSeries, which had an hypervisor for some
times now on POWER and even runs ... OS/400 :-) pSeries too has an HV
though until recently, it wouldn't do virtual IOs or virtual CPUs, but
the newly introduced pHyp that comes with POWER5 does have all these
features. In fact, newer iSeries use that too.

Ben.