[Info-vax] Release of OpenVMS V9.2 for x86 Scheduled for July 14, 2022

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/11/2022 2:26 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-07-11, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>> On 7/11/2022 2:03 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>
>>> Rather than one of the above boxes however, I would follow VSI's advice
>>> on what hardware they recommend to host your VMs running VMS. For example,
>>> take note of the fact you can only use Intel CPUs for now and cannot use
>>> AMD CPUs. (Unless that has changed _very_ recently).
>>>
>>
>> You maybe getting mixed up.  Running a VM doesn't care about mfg.  Or maybe I'm
>> mixed up.
> 
> Do the VM environments emulate missing hardware instructions with reasonable
> performance levels ?
> 
> For example, what happens when the VM software is being run on a box without
> PCID support ?

I don't think such emulators emulate anything in the CPU itself.

But they emulate disks and NIC's.

Arne