[Info-vax] Free to use Alpha emulators for Linux x86_64 ?

[dodecahedron99 at gmail.com]

I have found EmuVM to be rock solid, but I admit I have only tried it on a windows based host platform

I'm running 3 of these EmuVM windows host instances under ESXi on an HP Microserver with 16gb of memory. It is slow due to lack of cpu and double virtualisation. I really don't run anything substantial anyhow and most times I drop back to 2 instances running so as to have a small cluster.

I eventually wanted to play with two esxi instances and see how well VMS handled live migrations under VMware - but alas, I have never got around to it and my second HP microsserver has only the standard ram and before I could any of this, ram prices sky-rocketed and I have not expanded the ram on the second HP microsever (and will probably not now anyhow)
I have red WD based disks, they are not as slow as the Greens but are not as quick as the Blacks but they are rated as NAS tailored drives and I leave the instances pretty much running 24 x 7

16gb of Ram is technically not supported on the HP microsoerver I am using (N54L), although the latest model apparently does support 16 gb of ram as well as uefi booting I believe

I have emailed EmuVM and asked them if they have a hobbyist licence :-) or even a home type licence with a drastically reduced licence fee for their full blown product but they said they didn't but they were looking at a version that would maintain the performance of their full commercial product but with less I/O supported options - that was some time ago and I have not heard anything since, nor have I chased it up

I ended moving to EmuVM because there were issues with FreeAXP and RDB 7.3 (RDB requires EV56 as a minimum chipset)

http://www.openvmshobbyist.com/forum/viewthread.php?forum_id=163&thread_id=2290

Someone has posted a potential workaround but it involves pulling apart the rdb kit and trying to circumvent the check. Apparently FreeAXP does run an EV56 emulation internally but it presents itself as an earlier model 9why???) which is why the rdb check fails

It was just easier to go with EmuVM in the end

Let us know please how you find the linux version, I have been tempted to try it but my linux skills are rudimentary so I have stayed with a windows host platform for ease of use