[Info-vax] WHY IS VSI REQUIRING A HYPERVISOR FOR X86 OPENVMS?

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2020-12-20 kl. 21:53, skrev Phillip Helbig (undress to reply):
> In article <i49hq6Ft1lbU1 at mid.individual.net>, Andrew Brehm
> <ajbrehm at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> I don't see that they are requiring a hypervisor.
>>
>> But I also don't see your point. In my experience bare metal
>> requirements cost more money because you need to buy and support/install
>> extra hardware for the platform. With a hypervisor you can just add
>> OpenVMS instances on your existing hardware.
> 
> Assuming that you have such existing hardware.

Try to find one single VMS customer that has a VMS-only environment.
That will be quite hard. Rounded up a bit, I'd say that all sites
running VMS commercially (and paying VSI to do so!) also have a
suitable VM environment where they already run "everything else".

I don't think it is a question about being poor or rich.

And besides, if you have a VMS environment large enough and
can see the benefits, then do run it (VMS) on bare metal.

And for VMS amateurs, it is much easier to pick one of your last
laptops before you bought the latest one and run VirtualBox/VMS.
There you have a complete VMS system including a "console terminal"
in an inch thick package...

> So, cheaper for those already rich.  :-|
>