[Info-vax] HP's Partner Virtualization Program

[Steve]

On Aug 5, 9:07 am, IanMiller <g... at uk2.net> wrote:
> On 5 Aug, 05:57, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > 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 ?
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> > Or does the HP-UX VM application require special drivers to be loaded in
> > the hosted OS instance  ?
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> > 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 ?
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> > (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).
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> 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.

Agreed Ian.
That said though, the Sun virtualization offering allows you to boot
guest OSes without modification so that I can run Windows Server on my
Mac.  It's not industrial strength though so hardly a fair comparison
I guess.