[Info-vax] IBM nearing deal to acquire Red Hat

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/30/2019 12:45 PM, Hans Bachner wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj schrieb am 30.04.2019 um 03:55:
>> On 4/29/2019 8:17 PM, Kerry Main wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> While no longer supported on new HW, and currently not in the plans, it
>>> certainly would be nice to see some future version of OpenVMS resurrect
>>> these Galaxy features - perhaps using some of the new X86-64 built in
>>> virtualization features. But, yes, its not on the radar right now.
>>
>> What did Galaxy provide that standard x86-64 hypervisors do not?
> 
> Memory shared between instances?
> 
> I'm not familiar with the details around the Linux-based hypervisors 
> (Xen, KVM, ...), though.

VMWare supports having same readonly content on multiple
VM's share same physical RAM managed by VMWare,

But I don't think you can have writeable shared memory
or even readonly managed by applications.

So that is a difference.

Arne