Re: [OT] Re: Hercules - how to get a zVM OS (legally bought!) and put it on a VM under Hercules?
On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 19:17:27 -0400 (EDT), Philipp Kern wrote:
> ...
> Technically using Hercules is probably your best bet[*]. It should be able
> to do MIPS similar to your existing z800 on contemporary x86-64 hardware.
> (You'll certainly know for how many MIPS your existing machine was
> sized and Hercules does display them.) You might need to be careful with
> relation to I/O, of course.
> ...
Aye, there's the rub. CPU emulation is slow, but I/O emulation is really slow.
But I'm looking forward to Hercules 4.0, which promises an I/O subsystem
restructure, which should help in that regard. Incidentally, the version
of Hercules currently packaged for Debian, 3.07, was released by upstream
more than five years ago. There have been many enhancements, performance
improvements, and bug fixes since then. I'd love to see the Debian hercules
package updated. The current production upstream release is 3.11, released
on September 15, 2014. 3.07 was released on March 10, 2010.
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