[Info-vax] VSI Community License Program - x86

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/15/2023 11:18 PM, Mark Berryman wrote:
> 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.

Ah.

(I am pretty far away from HW these days)

So VMS need a CPU that can pass vmscheck.py and UEFI
to boot.

UEFI obviously apply to bare metal.

But what about VM's? Can the VM SW provide UEFI
capability on non-UEFI HW? And any difference
between type 1 and type 2 hypervisors?

Arne