[Info-vax] OpenVMS in a virtual machine?

[Wilm Boerhout]

koehler at spock.koehler.athome.net vaguely mentioned on 22-3-2009 18:12:
> In article <20090320110110.3a2d5035.cbyrzba at cbyrzba.bet>, polemon <cbyrzba at cbyrzba.bet> writes:
>> Hi!
>>
>> 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.

Does it now? Or is it still a promise that it will one day. I'm afraid 
I'm a bit lost with respect to the difference between marketing 
brochures and really restoring your VMS backup on such a VM.

/Wilm