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

[Scott Dorsey]

In article <rsljns$1c1u$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, Snowshoe  <no at spam.please> wrote:
>
>Is there such a thing as an OS-less VM hypervisor? More specifically, a 
>hypervisor which is its own OS in a way, you boot it directly (not 
>booting Linux/Windoze then starting the hypervisor) and pretty much the 
>only thing you can do once booted is starting virtual machines.

Yes.  This is rather common actually.  VM/370 is of course the great
grandaddy.

But once you get to this you then start getting arguments about what really
constitutes and operating system.
--scott
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