[Info-vax] VSI Community License Program - x86

[Mark Berryman]

On 4/15/23 1:07 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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?

I do not believe the issue is CPU related.  My understanding is that it 
is only Gen 9 and later that use UEFI.  Previous generations are 
apparently BIOS based.  VMS requires UEFI.

Mark Berryman