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About mark

At work, been working on Tandems for around 30yrs (programming + sysadmin), plus AIX and Solaris sysadmin also thrown in during the last 20yrs; also about 5yrs on MVS (mainly operations and automation but also smp/e work). At home I have been using linux for decades. Programming background is commercially in TAL/COBOL/SCOBOL/C(Tandem); 370 assembler(MVS); C, perl and shell scripting in *nix; and Microsoft Macro Assembler(windows).

So many VM’s, so little time – hercules

Posted on April 28, 2008 by mark

As well as the normal intel VM engines I mentioned earlier (although qemu also does sparc and powerpc) there is one other emulator that does need a mention. This is the hercules emulator.This is the emulator for mainframe geeks, which … Continue reading →

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QEMU and VDE

Posted on March 9, 2008 by mark

A while ago I finally got around to fully networking all my QEMU VM ‘s ,  using VDE (Virtual Distributed Ethernet) which is  brilliant, 5 VMs on a 10.2 .0 network fully accessable from my 169 network and they can … Continue reading →

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Comparison of Virtual Machines I have tried

Posted on August 16, 2007 by mark

I have spent some time playing with Virtual Machines, I got interested in these way back when UML (User Mode Linux) was a big thing. That broke for me when I went from Mandrake to Fedora so that is one … Continue reading →

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