[Info-vax] VMware

[Hans Bachner]

clair.grant at vmssoftware.com schrieb am 08.12.2019 um 21:28:
> 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.

Clair,

thanks for the excellent news that VMware apparently not only climbed up 
on your priority stack, but you succeeded with some initial steps to get 
VMS booting in VMware Fusion.

While Fusion certainly is an interesting option for developers (both 
OpenVMS and applications), VMware Workstation will be interesting for 
other developers, but for production use there's only ESXi which will 
get consideration from your customers (in the VMware world).

Keep the good news coming...

Best regards,
Hans.