Lastly, we already had the autobuilds stage3 for s390, but we lacked the boot environment for installing Gentoo. I have also written some tips and tricks for z/VM: They’re really basic and were the ones I needed for creating the guide. Keep in mind that some of the instructions given there are now outdated, mainly the links. Thanks to Dave Jones I was able to create the guide and test the release materials, he even did a presentation in the 2013 VM Workshop! Link to the PDF .
So if you want to have some fun and emulate a S390 machine in your computer, and install and use Gentoo in it, then follow the guide: įor those that have access to z/VM and want to install Gentoo, the guide explains all the steps needed to get a Gentoo System working. However QEMU, from what I can tell, is unable to emulate an S390 system in a non-S390 system, while Hercules does. Hercules emulates an S390 system, it’s like QEMU.
This is probably the guide that will be more interesting because everyone can run the Hercules emulator, while not everyone has access to a z/VM instance. Both are based in the same pattern, since So what I’ve documented: Gentoo S390 on the Hercules emulator and Gentoo S390 on z/VM.
So most of the part of last year and the last few weeks I’ve been polishing and finishing the documentation I had around.
Also thanks to the Debian project, since I based the materials in their procedure. Thanks to Marist College, IBM and Linux Foundation we were able to get two VMs for building the release materials, and thanks to Dave Jones V/Soft Software I was able to document the installation in a z/VM environment. For some reason there wasn’t any materials available to install Gentoo on a S390 system without having to rely in an already installed distribution. One of the projects I had last year that I ended up suspending due to lack of time was S390 documentation and installation materials.