[Info-vax] VSI Community License Program - x86

[Chris Townley]

On 16/04/2023 00:02, John H Reinhardt wrote:
> 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.

Are you using KVM?

Haven't yet tried VMS, but setting up a Ubuntu VM (from Ubuntu) worked 
fine, but as yet I cannot get access to it - so I am confused. Any 
pointers would be very helpful

-- 
Chris