[Info-vax] VMS port to x86

[JF Mezei]

Johnny Billquist wrote:

> Yes, and that is not properly "bare metal". Having Linux on which your 
> emulator runs, means it's running under Linux, not on the bare metal. 
> How hard can it be?


Except for IBM's LPARS (or whatever it is called) and Galaxy/Wildfire
class Alphas, are there hypervisors that allow multiple instances of an
OS directly on the hardware without some sort of host operating system ?

In the case of HP, the hypervisor they use on IA64 runs an instance of
HP-UX which then hosts other instances as glorified applications.

Anyone know what VMware really is ? It wouldn't susprise me if it had
linux under the hood.

Windows' offering is of course based on windows.