John R Pierce wrote: > On 03/04/11 11:59 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >>> I'm looking forward to the new cgroups and KVM. This will give it >>> > some capabilities similar to AIX virtual partitions which can divvy >>> > up CPUs at a fine resolution. >> Really? So IBM ported VM into native AIX? I missed that. > > IBM Power servers since the Power4+ CPU (they are up to Power7 now) have > hardware partitioning support, commonly known as LPAR. LPAR can be > divided in units of 1/10th of a CPU. The software to manage this is > now called PowerVM (its been called other names in the past, not all > polite). <snip> Neat! Thanks - around '06 I was working as a developer on a big AIX system, but never administered one. mark (who worked under VM on a mainframe, years back)