[Debian-ppc64-devel] Debian running on a pSeries 6E4 - almost

Cajus Pollmeier cajus@naasa.net
Fri, 3 Jun 2005 15:59:05 +0200


Am Freitag, 3. Juni 2005 15:51 schrieb Sven Luther:
> On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 02:53:41PM +0200, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote:
> > On Jun/03, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > > BTW, you don't run logical partitioning stuff, right ?
> > > >
> > > > 	Nope. To do that, I believe, a hardware HMC is needed, and we have
> > > > none of those :-)
> > >
> > > Which is why it works for you :)
> >
> > 	It works because the system doesn't support virtualization, or because
> > it's not enabled? :-m (I should know, but ... :-))
>
> Because the kernel doesn't include the virtualization patches.

Virtualization will work when pseries features are compiled in. The patches
I sent you are only for server side vscsi - if you want to provide these 
services.

His machine has no HMC, so it is not able to do the virtualization at all :-)

Cheers,
Cajus