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  3. April 2007

Re: System i LPARs

Yes with Linux I do this. Frankie has no video card though i can get the the desktop of the Linux partition with X. Extending that to Windows running in a processor emulator like QEMU seems rather like it might be, um, slow? Of course the primary use of such a server would never be for it's desktop that would only be for maintenance. So if the actual server ran OK then the pokey desktop wouldn't really matter much. 

- Larry

AGlauser@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Larry Bolhuis wrote on 30/03/2007 20:21:20:
It's one of those things I'd do just to show it could be done. However the QEMU folks don't yet support PowerPC64 processors as the host. Of course the other seemingly obvious problem is the video. Where does that
go, given the host Linux partition doesn't even have a video card. Definitely something that makes one go Hmmmm though.
I believe it's possible to run an X session on a Linux machine with no video card (a search for "Linux headless" seems to bring some promising results). X can do pretty much everything over a network that it can do locally, AFAIK. I can't think of many reasons that this wouldn't work when throwing QEMU into the mix - although without a GPU to help with the video processing, things might be a bit painful in terms of speed. 

HTH,
Adam

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