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Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed



On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 10:26:51AM -0300, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> Well, bare metal has been mistakenly used to describe what I would call
> dedicated partition of single partition mode. People may call it bare
> metal, because there is no virtualized IO (in fact, there is the
> console), and CPU and memory resources are not shared with other
> partitions. But there is still a Hypervisor under the OS. It's still a
> PowerVM LPAR, and boot capabilities still apply as though you were
> sharing the server with other partitions.

So PowerVM is built into the firmware and is always running?  We certainly
did not order or install PowerVM in any way.

I do see in the boot messages that hvc is a virtual console.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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