[Info-vax] Free Alpha emulators running under Linux ?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/3/2022 10:23 AM, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
> On 1/3/2022 6:03 AM, John Dallman wrote:
>> In article <squj4j$h25$1 at dont-email.me>,
>> clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP (Simon Clubley) wrote:
>>> It does raise one interesting question however: what does the
>>> concept of licencing units even mean when it comes to x86-64 VMS?
>>
> 
> I imagine they will do it the way they do Integrity licensing - probably 
> per socket but maybe per core, or as with Integrity, they may give you a 
> choice of one or the other when you buy the license.

I don't think per socket will make much sense in the future. Per
core or actually VCPU is what makes sense.

Examples:

You have VMS running on a 4 VCPU VM on ESXi that run 19 other
VMS on a 2s32c64t box and then you move it all to a new 2s48c96t box.

You have VMS running on a 4 VCPU EC2 instance and have no idea
what the HW is.

In those cases sockets does not have any relevant meaning.

Arne