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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-07-12, Andy Burns <usenet at andyburns.uk> wrote:
> 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.
>

So we are indeed back to running the VM instances on Intel machines
(just as VSI says) so that PCID is available to VMS.

Thanks to everyone for clarifying.

Simon.

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