Aix Running on Clones?

[Richard M. Mathews]

jackv at turnkey.tcc.com (Jack F. Vogel) writes:
>But neither Steve or Brian have gone
>into detail on what was required to do this; as a matter of fact, we had
>to build completely different kernels to run on these sites. So unfortunately
>its not just a matter of diddling with your installation disks or anything
>else that you might have the ability to fiddle with that will get it to
>work.

We built different kernels, but did we have to?  The old version didn't
have minidisks.  If you could get minidisks to work on the clone, you
might be able to do this as an OCO change.  Since, to my knowledge, this
has never been done, it is pure speculation.

>I think it would have to have an 
>identical NVRAM configuration as well which means ABIOS clone I believe. 

Don't we support at least one PS/2 model with no NVRAM?

>Steve pondered on why Locus itself might not offer this option, well this
>is an IBM product whose development was contracted to Locus so we wouldn't
>have this option even if we wanted ( and, I might add, I make no claims
>as to what the marketing types might want :-}).

I think Locus is free to create LPPs, but I doubt it would be in Locus's
best interest to upset IBM.  There would certainly be a question in this
case over whether we had made legitimate use of confidential information.
I suspect there is also a problem with selling a product which can only be
used by someone who is violating their license to use AIX on a specific
machine.

>Disclaimer: Naturally, these opinions are mine, not LCC or IBM's.

You can say that again. In fact, I will:

Disclaimer: Naturally, these opinions are mine, not LCC or IBM's.

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