[Info-vax] VSI has a new CEO

[Phil Howell]

On Thursday, 5 August 2021 at 11:00:20 pm UTC+10, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <segm3s$b6o$1... at dont-email.me>, 
> =?UTF-8?Q?Jan-Erik_S=c3=b6derholm?= <jan-erik.... 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).
But we know your wife has a MacBook!
You could buy her a new M1 MacBook and use the old one for virtualbox
I'd call that a win-win

:)