[Info-vax] Attn VSI employees: Viable full system Itanium emulator for VMS ?
Bill Gunshannon
bill.gunshannon at gmail.com
Thu Feb 17 09:35:39 EST 2022
On 2/17/22 09:00, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-02-16, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>> On 2022-02-16, John Dallman <jgd at cix.co.uk> wrote:
>>> HPE seem to have started to produce something for HP-UX. They announced
>>> in 2017 that they would provide a way to run HP-UX in containers on x86
>>> Linux, which obviously requires some kind of emulation. They called this
>>> "Portable HP-UX", sometimes abbreviated "P-UX".
>>>
>>> <https://3000newswire.blogs.com/3000_newswire/2017/09/hpe-takes-on-water-a
>>> fter-its-software-flip.html>
>>>
>>> This is a beta for it:
>>>
>>> https://downloads.linux.hpe.com/SDR/project/c-ux-beta/
>>>
>>> The Administration Guide has the most information. However, it is dated
>>> 2019, so it looks as if the project has died.
>>>
>>
>> Interesting. That certainly looks like an Itanium full system emulator.
>>
>> It's a pity that it's HP-UX specific. I also note it's not available
>> for download without a warranty/support contract unfortunately.
>>
>
> I've had some more thoughts about this and it _may_ end up being
> a viable Itanium full system emulator for VSI to offer after all.
>
> It looks more most of the HP-UX stuff is capturing the original system
> configuration and moving the HP-UX installation over to the emulator
> and as such is basically a layer on top of the full system emulator.
>
> Could VSI provide their own VMS layer on top of the emulator to move
> an Itanium system over to the emulator ?
>
> While the documentation is explicit that "The emulation is tuned for
> HP-UX 11i v3. This OS is the only guest OS supported by the P-UX virtual
> machine.", I wonder how much additional work would be required to get
> it to support VMS ?
>
> Given that VSI are in partnership with HPE, perhaps VSI could get
> access to the source code to find out how viable that could be ?
>
> Can someone else offer their own opinion ?
Opinion? Why is that every time I see this my mind makes it say PHUX?
:-)
bill
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