[Info-vax] VSI has a new CEO

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <segm3s$b6o$1 at dont-email.me>,
=?UTF-8?Q?Jan-Erik_S=c3=b6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>
writes: 

> "Everyone" has a laptop supporting VirtualBox.

I am not "everyone"

> "VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and Solaris hosts..."

Apart from VMS, I have an eBook reader (which runs Android under the 
hood, though not accessible to the user) and an iPad.  I don't think 
that VirtualBox runs on iPadOS, and even if it did, I don't know how I 
would connect peripherals.

> I do not see why clusters and HBVS would not work in an VirtualBox
> environment. Not with physical shared disks of course, but over
> the network.

Some people prefer separate, as opposed to shared, disks.

> In the PDF from the last Webinar there is a SHOW CLUSTER output
> shown having 10 nodes:
> 2 nodes with V9.1 (x86 in a VM)
> 2 nodes with 8.4-1H1 (older IA64)
> 2 nodes with 8.4-2L2 (should be Alpha, I think)
> 4 nodes with 8.4-2L3 (latest IA64)
> 
> This might use some other VM environment than VirtualBox, but from
> the VMS point of view that should not matter, as far as I understand.

I'm sure the cluster is not the problem; I'm wondering more about HBVS 
with members on different nodes (maybe it works; I don't know).