[Info-vax] VSI has a new CEO

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/5/2021 8:14 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <segcga$g9$1 at dont-email.me>,
> =?UTF-8?Q?Jan-Erik_S=c3=b6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>
> writes:
> 
>> And anyway, most VMS sites already have the VM admins in other groups
>> that does the VM config and just present you with the VM environment.
>>
>> When the VM is ready there should be very few differences from a bare
>> metal VMS installation.
>>
>> If you are a single person shop, use VirtualBox. Just as easy as any
>> PC application to install and in it self way easier then to run VMS.
> 
> Wearing my hobbyist hat, that means that I would have to have some other
> OS running on the machine in order to install VirtualBox?

Yes. VirtualBox is a type 2 hypervisor (not type 1) so you need
a host OS.

For development that is often convenient.

>                                                       I can see it
> working fine in terms of logging in and getting to the DCL prompt.  But
> what about things like clustering (not between instances of VirtualBox
> on the same hardware, but between different physical machines), HBVS,
> and so on?

I don't see any difference from physical HW in that regard.

The VM is on the network and can access other VM's on same host,
VM's on different hosts and physical systems.

Arne