[Info-vax] VSI Community License Program - x86

[Chris Townley]

On 16/04/2023 01:43, John H Reinhardt wrote:
> On 4/15/2023 7:32 PM, Chris Townley wrote:
>> 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
>>
> 
> Sorry, no. I am using VMware ESXI V7.0u3    I'm not familiar with KVM 
> networking, but if you're using a network bridge/switch in the Virtual 
> host and you have the option, you might need to enable promiscuous mode 
> and maybe MAC changes.  I did on ESXi

Thanks - I will take a loo in the morning

-- 
Chris