[Info-vax] VSI Community License Program - x86

[Chris Townley]

On 15/04/2023 15:55, John H Reinhardt wrote:
> On 4/15/2023 8:40 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> In article <u0uqbn$1nef1$1 at dont-email.me>,
>> Chris Townley  <news at cct-net.co.uk> wrote:
>>> Can anyone suggest what sort of cheap server/workstation I could get to
>>> run this? All my modern systems are AMD
>>>
>>> I have looked at various DL380p Gen 8, but the cpus seen too old
>>
>> This is a good question... and nobody is answering it.  Has anyone had
>> experience running on the Gen 8 machines?
> 
> Robert Brooks and others (I think) have in past times stated repeatedly 
> that a Gen 9 or later HP Proliant will be required for bare metal.  
> Since the CPU characteristics are usually propagated through by the VM 
> hypervisor, that would seem to mean that VM Hosts must be Gen 9 or 
> higher as well, but I'm just guessing at that..
> 
> John H. Reinhardt

I have now bought an Intel NUC with a 12 series i5 CPU - currently 
trying to set it up at the moment, but as yet not familiar with KVM.
Otherwise I have a Ryzen series 3 desktop that has virtualbox that I 
could try, seeing that Single Stage to Orbit has it running on a 
threadripper

-- 
Chris