Editing Z/VM (section)

{{Short description|Computer operating system}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2022}}
{{main article|VM (operating system)}}{{lowercase}}
{{Infobox OS
| name                   = z/VM
| logo                   = IBM logo.svg
| logo caption           = 
| logo size              = 120px
| screenshot             =
| caption                = z/VM running CMS fullscreen
| developer              = [[IBM]]
| family                 = VM family
| source_model           = [[Closed source]]
| working_state          = Current
| latest_release_version = 7.4 <!-- If you update this, don't forget to update [[Comparison of operating systems]]-->
| latest_release_date    = 20 September 2024<ref>{{Cite web |title=Introducing IBM z/VM 7.4 |date=6 August 2024 |url=https://www.vm.ibm.com/zvm740/}}</ref>
| kernel_type            =
| license                = [[Proprietary software|Proprietary]]
| website                = {{URL|www.ibm.com/products/zvm}}
}}
{{History of IBM mainframe operating systems|vm}}
'''z/VM''' is the current version in IBM's [[VM (operating system)|VM family]] of [[virtual machine]] [[operating systems]]. First released in October 2000,<ref>{{Cite web |title=IBM: VM 50th Anniversary |date=2 August 2022 |url=https://www.vm.ibm.com/history/50th/index.html}}</ref> z/VM remains in active use and development {{As of|2024|lc=on}}.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.vm.ibm.com/library/740pdfs/74628600.pdf|title=z/VM 7.4, General Information|publisher=IBM|date=2024}}</ref> It is directly based on technology and concepts dating back to the 1960s, particularly IBM's [[CP/CMS]] on the [[IBM System/360-67]] (see article [[History of CP/CMS]] for historical details). z/VM runs on IBM's [[IBM Z]] family of computers and can support large numbers (thousands) of Linux virtual machines. (See [[Linux on IBM Z]].)

On 16 September 2022, IBM released z/VM Version 7.3 which requires [[z/Architecture]], implemented in IBM's [[IBM zEnterprise System#zEnterprise EC12|EC12]], [[IBM zEnterprise System#zEnterprise BC12|BC12]] and later models.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Announcement |date=13 September 2022 |url=https://www.vm.ibm.com/zvm730/announce.html}}</ref>