[Info-vax] OpenVMS on x86 and Virtual Machines -- An Observation

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <8f9a7157-ac0c-4471-a725-ce52ffa4a86c at googlegroups.com>,
gezelter at rlgsc.com writes: 

> Traditionally, OpenVMS has been run on dedicated hardware. 

> With the advent of OpenVMS on x86, there is an increasing discussion of 
> running OpenVMS x86 on various virtual machine hypervisors 

Since VMS will soon run natively on x86, what is the motivation to run 
it on some sort of emulator?