7.2. How Linux can run on z/VM
At its core, the z/VM operating system is a hypervisor. The hypervisor can present virtual copies of the underlying hardware resources that it controls to operating systems running on a virtual machine. Users can run multiple images of other operating systems as “guests” of the hypervisor, sharing the same single set of real CPUs and I/O facilities, as shown in Figure 7-1.
Figure 7-1. Virtualization technology with z/VM. Resources can be virtualized and presented to the user as if each user had his or her own machine.
Any operating system that can run on an S/390 or z/Architecture mainframe can also run under the ...
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