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

[Scott Dorsey]

Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>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?

The ability to snapshot systems, to shut them down and restore them on
different hardware on the fly without users noticing.  Zero downtime for
maintenance.
--scott
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