Unsupported Devices

You can use the DEDICATE statement to put a device that z/VM® does not support into a virtual machine configuration. To dedicate such a device, it must be:

Physically connected to the z/VM system
Supported by the VSE operating system.

For example, a directory entry can include the statement:

DEDICATE 007 012

where real address 012 represents a real device that is unsupported by z/VM but is attached to the processor.

The device is added to VSE as:

ADD 007,xxxx,EML

Note: The EML parameter is required when defining a device for VSE that is defined to z/VM as unsupported.