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zero_vm type

zero_vm 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 base vm image or container image.
  • the flist content is what changes the zero_vm mode. An flist built from a docker image or has files, or executable binaries will run in a container mode. ZOS will inject it's own kernel+initramfs to run the workload and kick start the defined flist entrypoint
• private network to join (with assigned IP)
• optional public ipv4 or ipv6
• optional disks. But at least one disk is required in case running zero_vm in vm mode, which is used to hold the vm root image.

For more details on all parameters needed to run a zero_vm please refer to zero_vm data

Building your flist.

Please refer to this document here about how to build an compatible zero_vm flist