[Info-vax] HP's Partner Virtualization Program

[JF Mezei]

Main, Kerry wrote:

> I am sure readers here do understand, but just in case - the OpenVMS OS 
> guest will need to be an Integrity V8.4 OS instance.

Just curious, shouldn't a Virtual Machine be able to provide total
transparency and let any version of the OS boot since its role is to
provide the illusion that the hosted instance has its own computer ?

Or does the HP-UX VM application require special drivers to be loaded in
the hosted OS instance  ?

Couldn't they have retrofitted those drives to 8.3 ? Or are the changes
needed to run in emulated hardware so dramatic that it really does need
a new version of VMS ?

(I am asking at a technical level, not at a project management or
business case level where it is opbvious they had long planned for those
changes to be in 8.4).