z/VM
z/Virtual Machine (z/VM) has two basic components: a control
program (CP) and a single-user operating system, CMS. As a control program,
z/VM is a hypervisor because it runs other operating systems in the virtual
machines it creates. Any of the IBM mainframe operating systems such as z/OS,
Linux for zSeries, z/VSE, and z/TPF can be run as guest systems in their own
virtual machines, and z/VM can run any combination of guest systems
z/VM’s other major component is the Conversational
Monitor System or CMS. This component of z/VM runs in a virtual machine and
provides both an interactive end user interface and the general z/VM
application programming interface. |