[Info-vax] VMware

[clair.grant@vmssoftware.com]

On Sunday, December 8, 2019 at 3:07:00 PM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 12/8/2019 1:34 PM, 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?
> 
> I would assume the end goal would be to support VMWare ESXi and
> that VMWare Fusion is just a step towards that.
> 
> VMWare ESXi support would be important for many customers.
> 
> Arne

Yes, the goal is production environments. Fusion is a convenient debugging environment. We will likely try the PC version as well.