[Info-vax] VSI Community License Program - x86

[John H Reinhardt]

On 4/15/2023 11:54 PM, Volker Halle wrote:
> John H Reinhardt schrieb am Sonntag, 16. April 2023 um 06:33:01 UTC+2:
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>> 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.
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> There is a report over in the VSI Forum of a success story running VSI OpenVMS x86-64 E9.2-1 on baremetal:
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> https://forum.vmssoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=8621
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> And that forum is currently very busy with posts relating to OpenVMS x86-64 ;-)
> 
> Volker.

Thanks Volker! I had missed that.  Looks like it was posted about 15 minutes before I did here.  Of course, Scot asked for "supported" and we know what that means. ;) I did a quick Google search and that ASRock motherboard looks to be about 8 years old and out of stock most places.  Used on Ebay for prices between $150 and $500.  Could be an interesting experiment.  Have to watch the # of cores in the CPU you use as the VSI license only allows 6.

But, yes, the VSI Forums have been very busy lately.  Which is good!

John H. Reinhardt