[Info-vax] VSI Community License Program - x86

[John H Reinhardt]

On 4/15/2023 10:05 AM, Chris Townley wrote:
> 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
> 

I got an Intel NUC 9 Extreme with the i9 CPU. I added 32GB RAM and 5TB of SSD.  With 8 cores/16 threads I figure I can get a number of VM on it and still have pretty good performance.  So far OpenVMS has been pretty snappy.