[Info-vax] VMware

[clair.grant@vmssoftware.com]

On Sunday, December 8, 2019 at 1:34:53 PM UTC-5, Grant Taylor wrote:
> On 12/8/19 10:52 AM, clair.grant at vmssoftware.com wrote:
> > Yes, I am booting VMS as a Fusion guest. We don't get very far yet 
> > but we will eventually get VMS up and running.
> 
> How much difference is there between VMware Fusion and Oracle 
> VirtualBox?  My experience is that the two systems are quite similar, 
> save for some minor supported hardware differences.  I.e. which video 
> chipset or SCSI chipset or network card each emulates.
> 
> Is VMware Fusion enough different from Oracle's VirtualBox to be 
> significant for OpeVMS?  Or is it that you're current work efforts are 
> using VMware Fusion?
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Grant. . . .
> unix || die

As I have said hundreds of times, I never expect to boot on a new platform without some amount of configuration-related debugging. You can just about bet the mortgage on not getting beyond SYSBOOT.

Once you get a little further up then it will be the time keeping mechanism and how we wrangle it into our interval timer.  Sometimes you lucky with that, though.

After getting booted and loading all the software images then things should be fairly normal since you are beyond most of the platform-specific stuff.