Of interest to mvs3.8j hobbiests, probably not unless they want to run it on an OpenStack cloud; which they would probably need to be running at home as rackspace does not allow custom images installed.
Ok, to be truthful it is actually a Fedora 20 cloud-init enabled image. With hercules being the application that is installed on the image.
When booted into an instance it will automatically start hercules running my customised copy of Turnkey3.
As long as you associate a floating ip for the instance and open port 3270/tcp to the instance all you have to do is boot the instance, wait a while, and connect a 3270 emulator to the ip-address assigned on port 3270 for a TSO session.
But if you don’t want to fire up a kvm VM and would prefer a cloud fire-up/tear-down environment it is possible.
But I have added the image as an option in the hercules section of my website covering ‘how to obtain a working copy’ for those that may not want a live-DVD/live-USB solution.
Ok, real reason, I just wanted to do it.
And it’s tested and working; a new mvs38j system can be deployed and running in minutes as a standard OpenStack instance.
It’s available from my website page explaining the mvs3.8j OpenStack image if anyone is interested.
