The SimpleMVS version I think is the easiest to use.There are two forms of “turnkey” z/OS installations available in this project: More details on the code are shown below.A video of the results of this project is available on my You-tube Channel.The code base I created is available here on GitHub.You can read more about Hercules at the Hercules Emulator.Vagrant is simply added here to make the installation process easier, repeatable, and to isolate all configuration from your local machine. It does not require Vagrant as a container, and can likely run on the operating system of the machine you have chosen (Linux, Windows or Mac).

Hercules does not include the z/OS operating system, but is a VM itself. Hercules runs under Linux, Windows (98, NT, 2000, and XP), Solaris, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X (10.3 and later).” “ Hercules is an open source software implementation of the mainframe System/370 and ESA/390 architectures, in addition to the new 64-bit z/Architecture. I did add one twist I think, making it run on Vagrant as a VM. These systems are not new developments, having been around for more than a decade. Building on other POC projects, including the short Raspberry Pi experimentation, and the longer Universal Ledger Infrastructure project, I have recently experimented with a personal mainframe system.

Installing z/vm on hercules