Obtaining the IBM KVM for z ISO Image

Requirements:

  • Access to IBM Shopz website
  • Web Browser

Procedure:

  1. Open the URL www.ibm.com/software/shopzseries
  2. Click on "My downloads"
  4. On the "My Downloads" screen, select your customer number and click "Continue"

  6. On the "Standalone product and fix downloads" screen, select:

    1. in Operating environment, select KVM for IBM z
    2. in Group, select KVM for IBM z - All
    3. in Language, select All languages
    4. and click "Show products" to proceed

  8. Select the product [5648-KVM] KVM for IBM z Version 1.01.02 and click "Show product downloads"
  10. Click on "Select all" and click "Download selected" to proceed with the download of the KVM product itself, the SHA256 file and license documents.
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  12. You have the options to use the HTTPS button to download each of the three files individually. The default is to use the Download Director plugin. After you click the "Download selected" button the IBM Download Director screen will pop up. Click "execute" to accept the plugin execution.
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  14. Insert the destination folder and begin the download of the files. The time to download will depend on your internet connection speed. The image below shows the progress bar.
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  16. After you finished the download, you will have these three files:

    1. KVMIBM-1.1.2-160907-lic-s390x.iso (~19 MB);
    2. KVMIBM-1.1.2-160907-s390x.iso.sha256.txt (1 KB); and
    3. KVMIBM-1.1.2-160907-s390x.iso.ZIP (~ 881MB)

  17. Extract the KVMIBM-1.1.2-160907-s390x.iso.ZIP with the unzip command or using an application like 7zip

  18. On your Linux Workstation, check the integrity with the command:
  19. sha256sum -c KVMIBM-1.1.2-160907-s390x.iso.sha256.txt
  20. On Windows Workstation is necessary on additional utility to compute SHA256 hashes
# ls -la
total 916600
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root      4096 Dec 15 18:54 .
drwxr-xr-x. 7 root root      4096 Dec 15 18:13 ..
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 938579968 Dec 15 19:03 KVMIBM-1.1.2-160907-s390x.iso
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root       150 Dec 15 18:14 KVMIBM-1.1.2-160907-s390x.iso.sha256.txt
[root@kvm112 KVM]# sha256sum -c KVMIBM-1.1.2-160907-s390x.iso.sha256.txt
KVMIBM-1.1.2-160907-s390x.iso: OK

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