[Info-vax] OpenVMS.Org quick pool

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2012-08-16 19:21:30 +0000, John Wallace said:

> On Aug 16, 2:37 pm, Ian Miller <g... at uk2.net> wrote:
>> OpenVMS.Org are looking to collect and confirm some information about 
>> OpenVMS users and usage. Please take a few minutes to complete this 13 
>> question poll. Your input is 
>> valuable.http://www.openvms.org/pages.php?page=Quick-Poll
> 
> "would you use OpenVMS I64 running on x86 using an Integrity Virtual
> Machine in a production environment"
> 
> ?
> 
> If that is intended to read as it is written, then it might be helpful
> to expand on the concept a bit (a linked page? or is the Wikipedia
> article sufficient?), for the benefit of those VMS folk who until now
> have had no interest in what's been available on IA64.

As written, that question is quite confusing.  Or the questioner is 
confused.  The HP Integrity Virtual Machine product is an Itanium-only 
product, and restricted to specific recent Itanium processors in 
Integrity servers, and restricted to hosting non-nested guest operating 
systems (including OpenVMS) atop the HP-UX host operating system.   You 
can't stack an HP VM atop an HP VM, unlike what is possible with IBM 
VM.  That question could then mean a mix of x86 and Itanium processors 
in the same box, such as is possible with the existing c-class 
BladeSystem configurations.  Or that there's consideration being given 
here around an x86-64 port of an Itanium emulator, and this question 
would be an odd way to pursue/announce/consider that engineering work.


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