[Info-vax] HP's Partner Virtualization Program

[Arne Vajhøj]

IanMiller wrote:
> 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.

That would definitely explain it.

I think it would have been better to have the VM emulate an existing
low end box.

But there can be all kinds of license reasons to want it identifiable.

Arne