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

Andy Burns usenet at andyburns.uk
Tue Jul 12 05:09:53 EDT 2022


David Wade wrote:

> Simon Clubley wrote:
> 
>> Do the VM environments emulate missing hardware instructions with reasonable
>> performance levels ?
> 
> With current Hypervisors, I believe the answer is "No" The OS only sees the 
> features a CPU has.

often a subset of features, so that at boot time, the guest doesn't use features 
that are not available on all nodes in a cluster, so allowing live migration to 
older hosts within the cluster.




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