1. A multi-partition computer system comprising: plural hard partitions; computing resources; plural workloads configured to run in said partitions using said computing resources, each of said workloads including an operating system; a workload manager for dynamically assigning said resources to said workloads according to workload-management policies; a configuration inspector for inspecting said partitions to acquire configuration information regarding workload containers contained by each of said partitions; and a policy controller for automatically setting said policies at least in part as a function of said configuration information in response to a command.