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

[David Wade]

On 31/01/2019 05:06, IanD wrote:
> CentOS is loved because it's the free arm of redhat
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> David, VM's are addictive, once you try them out you'll love and appreciate the flexibility they bring
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> Sure, there's some fun about learning various switches and unique configuration setting on hardware panels but as get older that fun slowly fades and your left just wanting to get a job done
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> Virtualbox is ok and had got better. VMware workstation used to be awesome until they fired all the developers and did the development offshore somewhere.
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> You could always sign up for something like AWS or azure free tier (you basically get a year for free) and play with spinning up and down instances. AWS makes it very easy.
> There plenty of YouTube videos walking you through the process
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> After playing with VM's you'll start to feel somewhat frustrated when you go back to physical hardware, but that's it's terrible, it's just that VM's open up an order of flexibility that you don't realise you missed because you never had it :-)
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I also think that if you have a spare box it might be worth loading the 
VMWARE vsphere which is a bare metal hypervisor. I think you can still 
get a free copy...

Dave