[Info-vax] VSI Community License Program - x86

John H Reinhardt johnhreinhardt at thereinhardts.org
Sun Apr 16 00:32:57 EDT 2023


On 4/15/2023 10:56 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> John H Reinhardt  <johnhreinhardt at thereinhardts.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
> 
> That's fine, but VMS will not run on the bare metal on such a machine, which
> was the original poster's question.  What is the least expensive supported
> system on which it will reliably run on the bare metal?
> --scott

I was replying to Chris Townley message in which he mentioned buying an Intel NUC 12.

The answer to your question is none since as of the moment, it's not supported nor able to run on bare metal anything.  The only drivers are for virtualized devices and hosts.

John H. Reinhardt




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