[Info-vax] HP's Partner Virtualization Program

[IanMiller]

On 5 Aug, 05:57, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> 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).


As far as I can tell Running on HP VM is like running on a new model
of Itanium Server so there are some changes needed to VMS.