[Info-vax] VMware

[Craig A. Berry]

On 12/9/19 7:34 PM, Grant Taylor wrote:

> VMs also offer a redundancy / hardware abstraction layer that hardware 
> can't match.
> 
> It's trivial to (re)start a VM on another host, even when the host it 
> was running on throws sparks and flames or otherwise turns into a pile 
> of slag.

Doesn't being able to do that depend on OS capabilities that quiesce
everything while the running instance is being moved?  I wouldn't expect
a lot of the usual VM capabilities for OpenVMS instances on first
roll-out, but it would still be very nice to have it running on VMWare,
even if managing it is still mostly done the old-fashioned way for now.