[Info-vax] VSI Community License Program - x86

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/15/2023 11:17 AM, Chris Townley wrote:
> On 15/04/2023 16:10, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> John H Reinhardt  <johnhreinhardt at thereinhardts.org> wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> The advice from VSI was fairly woolly:
> 
>      Most Intel CPUs from 2016 and later support these processor features

I thougth VSI recommended running vmscheck.py to verify if the
CPU will do?

Arne