lcc.barry@UCLA-LOCUS.ARPA (12/20/84)
Sorry for posting this to unix-wizards, but some mailer between Dick Dunn and here is broken and records his return address as "rcd@opus.uucp" which is not a reasonable address unless you happen to be adjacent to rcd (I'm not). I hope someday somebody can negotiate a truce between Rich Wales' (UCLA's) postman and UCB's sendmail. =============================================================================== I'm replying directly to you. This discussion no longer belongs in unix-wizards. >>With VM, you do your work during the day...(then) come in ONE night... (me) >True enough for systems which run UNDER VM. However, as barry pointed >out later in the same article, the once-simple VM has grown an unfortunate >number of features and enhancements. SO, this means that you get to >come in between 2 and 6 AM to work on VM. (Dick Dunn) Even though VM has grown an alarming number of features, you can STILL run it in a virtual machine. (Err, *crawl* it in a virtual machine). I used to do that all the time when testing KVM/370, and I did it when upgrading from SP2 to SP3. I don't usually bother for minor enhancements like changing the configuration (DMKRIO). I just wait till most people are at lunch, tell the rest to take a 5 minute break, shutdown, and IPL. There will still be some cases where you have to work at night, of course. If you have a fancy network or other special device that your production depends on and it's not virtualizable and you only have ONE, well that's the way it goes. barry