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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/20/20 3:53 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 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.  So, cheaper for those
> already rich.  :-|
> 

If we are still talking VMS then it is always going to cheaper on a
VM because hardware wise only the top end are likely to be supported
and they will always be expensive.

bill