HVF & z/VM
After a couple of days of trying to figure out why HVF didn’t want to IPL under z/VM, I finally managed to find out that z/VM is trying to act like a real 3215 printer-keyboard console, and refusing to do Sense-ID. It just rejects it. Grrr. So I set up a “device blacklist” where I say that device number 0009 is a 3215 console. It works well enough. This is what things look like on a real mainframe :)
ipl c clear HVF version 0.13 Memory: 4096 kB/page 131072 kB 32768 pages PSA for each CPU 0..1024 kB nucleus 1024..4096 kB struct page array 4096..4608 kB generic pages 4608..131072 kB Devices: 3215-00 @ 0009 (sch 10003) 3390-12 @ 0190 (sch 10004) 3390-12 @ 019d (sch 10005) 3390-12 @ 019e (sch 10006) 3390-12 @ 0191 (sch 10007) 3390-12 @ 0192 (sch 10008) Scheduler: no task max
Shiny isn’t it? Subchannels 0-2 are missing because the devices (card reader, punch, and printer) don’t support Sense-ID, but I haven’t bothered to set up the “blacklist” entries because I won’t need these devices anytime soon.