[Info-vax] OpenVMS in a virtual machine?

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Sun Mar 22 18:31:03 EDT 2009


koehler at spock.koehler.athome.net wrote:
> In article <20090320110110.3a2d5035.cbyrzba at cbyrzba.bet>, polemon <cbyrzba at cbyrzba.bet> writes:
>> Is there a way of running OpenVMS in a virtual machine?
>>
>> Or is there a VAX emulator at all?
> 
>    In addition to a virtual machine that is an emulation of the hardware
>    that VMS runs on, there is also the market-speak meaning of virtual
>    machine.  VMS runs in an HP-UX based VM on IA64.

It many ways it is the same meaning since it does the same thing - it
is just a bit faster when the virtual machines has the same instruction
set as the host machine.

Arne



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