Re: Unable to startup TurnKey MVS 3.8 after installation. Help needed.

I cannot speak to VMWare, but I have been running Hercules/MVS38j exclusively under Microsoft Viurual PC for five years.  Currently I am using a Dell Latitude D620, C2D 2.0, running Windows XP Pro as my host.  I use VPC 2007 and run Hercules/MVS in a W98SE guest.  I wanted a simple stable small footprint OS to run MVS on and 98SE qualified.  I use an OS/2 WARP 4.5 guest and run CICS/OS2 in it.  I also have an XP Pro guest running CICS/AD for Windows to do program development.  I have never had a problem as all OS's are isolated and stable.  I am in the process of migrating all my XP stuff over to a W7 guest.

--- In [email protected], "paoloG" <crc@...> wrote:
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> --- In [email protected], "Anyanso" <pagwu@> wrote:
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> > Hello Ed,
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> > Thanks for your post on this thread. No, MVS38j is not running directly under VMware. My configuration is VMware ---> Windows 2003--->MVS38j == 3 layers of "OS" if you include VMware. 
> > Now that you mentioned it, I will one day try to run MVS38j as a Guest OS on VMware. But right now, I am just excited getting my own "Big Iron" all to myself!!
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> > Thanks everyone
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> If you use VMware Workstation 6.5 (as you said in your initial post)you have 5 layers: Windows or Linux host - VMware - Windows 2003 -Hercules - MVS38j.
> Only VMware Server ESX (now ESXi) runs on bare metal (to tell the truth it's a heavily modified LINUX thar runs VMware..).
> So IMHO it's better to run Hercules under your *FIRST* OS (Linux or Windows).
> Don't try to run MVS38j as a Guest OS on VMware... you would be disappointed ;-)
> MVS38j runs as a guest OS of Hercules under Linux or Windows; not VMware.
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> Regards.
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> Paul
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