[Info-vax] VSI Community License Program - x86

[Chris Townley]

On 15/04/2023 16:10, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> John H Reinhardt  <johnhreinhardt at thereinhardts.org> 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..
> 
> Oh no, I know folks who are running a test VM server on some junk Optiplex
> that's more than a decade old, and it's slow but working.  I am guessing
> it's a matter of driver support if it really does require the Gen 9.
> --scott

The advice from VSI was fairly woolly:

     Most Intel CPUs from 2016 and later support these processor features

-- 
Chris