zmachine
is a unified container/virtual machine type. This can be used to start a virtual machine on a zos
node give the following:
flist
, this what provide the basevm
image or container image.- the
flist
content is what changes thezmachine
mode. Anflist
built from a docker image or has files, or executable binaries will run in a container mode.ZOS
will inject it's ownkernel+initramfs
to run the workload and kick start the definedflist
entrypoint
- the
- private network to join (with assigned IP)
- optional public
ipv4
oripv6
- optional disks. But at least one disk is required in case running
zmachine
invm
mode, which is used to hold thevm
root image.
For more details on all parameters needed to run a zmachine
please refer to zmachine
data
Please refer to this document here about how to build an compatible zmachine flist