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

[Dave Froble]

On 1/31/2019 5:31 AM, David Wade wrote:
> On 31/01/2019 05:06, IanD wrote:
>> CentOS is loved because it's the free arm of redhat
>>
>> David, VM's are addictive, once you try them out you'll love and
>> appreciate the flexibility they bring
>>
>> 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
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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
>>
>> 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 :-)
>>
>
> 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

Thanks, I'm going top do that.  Maybe better than running on top of 
WEENDOZE.

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