[Info-vax] VirtualBox (Was: X86 first boot? - A Really Stupid Question)

[Chris Scheers]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 3/29/19 11:57 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
>> On 3/29/2019 10:35 AM, David Turner wrote:
>>> Seeing as how incompatibilities exist even on 1 Alphaserver or Integrity
>>> server, how the hell is VSI going to maintain drivers/support for
>>> options and servers and workstations running VSI x86-64 VMS?
>>>
>>> I mean, just buy a DELL server for example.
>>> Even under the same part number,  1 server may have a Broadcom network
>>> chip on the board, while the other may have an intel chipset.
>>> Same goes for SAS controllers, with ever changing firmware levels...
>>>
>>> And the support for a multitude of different branded servers using ever
>>> changing chipsets and cpus?
>>>
>>> Even Proliant servers, which are more parts-vendor stable, come from the
>>> manufacturer with different firmware levels. Everything seems to go out
>>> to the highest bidder on memory products, USB chips.....
>>>
>>> This is going to be TRUE HELL unless there is a very small and finite
>>> date code, product code, firmware version etc.
>>>
>>> Otherwise it is going to be a Sh*tstorm for VSI Support.....
>>>
>>> Methinks 2 very specific servers - HPE only - with some seriously
>>> limited options and expansion capabilities, is the only way forward...
>>>
>>> My opinion but experience does sometimes trump logic.
>>
>> One simple option David.  VirtualBox.
> 
> I never found VirtualBox good enough for a production environment.
> Maybe it's changed since  my latest retirement, but I doubt it.

That is sort of an "it depends" issue.  VirtualBox is not necessarily 
VirtualBox.  It has different capabilities on different host OSes.

I would say that VirtualBox under Windows is not good enough for 
production.  Under Windows, VirtualBox is not able to automatically 
start and stop instances with host startup/shutdown.

Under other OSes, this isn't a problem (as long as startup/shutdown 
operations can be scripted) and I don't have a problem using VirtualBox 
for production.

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