New Community: Compass L

Do you know Compass L yet...? This community offers a great opportunity to interact with other users, developers and architects of Linux and KVM on IBM Z!

For further information, see the flyer below, or head over right away and join the community here.

RHEL 8.5 AV Released

RHEL 8.5 Advanced Virtualization (AV) is out! See the official announcement and the release notes.

KVM is supported via Advanced Virtualization, and provides

• QEMU v6.0, supporting virtio-fs on IBM Z
  
• libvirt v7.6
  

Furthermore, RHEL 8.5 AV now supports the possibility to persist mediated devices.

For a detailed list of Linux on Z-specific changes, also see this blog entry at Red Hat.

IBM-specific documentation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 is available at IBM Documentation here (in particular: Device Drivers, Features and Commands on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5).
See here on how to enable AV in RHEL 8 installs.