[Info-vax] VMware

[Hans Bachner]

Clair,

clair.grant at vmssoftware.com schrieb am 09.12.2019 um 01:50:
> On Sunday, December 8, 2019 at 5:21:22 PM UTC-5, Hans Bachner wrote:
>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Keep the good news coming...
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Hans.
> 
> I guess I need to set something straight. VMware has always been at the top of our list but the VMware folks wouldn't give us the time of day. 

maybe my wording wasn't accurate enough. I remember the days when you 
said they weren't interested in talking to you. And VMware at the bottom 
of the list of virtualization environments if at all.

> Now they are talking to us. 

Congratulations for convincing them - this is a real milestone, if not a 
prerequisite to get OpenVMS running in VMware.

> That is why we started working with Fusion. We need them to officially support VMS as a guest OS. That takes a business agreement between the two companies which now seems a possibility. There was no sign of that until a couple weeks ago.
> 
> ESX is obviously the goal. Anything else just gives us easier ways to get a sense of how much work it will take to get there.

Great to see you making progress.

Best regards,
Hans.