[Info-vax] VSI has released 9.2-1

[Gary Sparkes]

On Wednesday, July 5, 2023 at 11:28:37 PM UTC-4, Dan Cross wrote:
> In article <u859bs$q1h7$1... at dont-email.me>,
> Arne Vajhøj <ar... at vajhoej.dk> wrote: 
> >On 7/5/2023 9:43 PM, Dan Cross wrote: 
> >> In article <u84l3q$kcjd$1... at dont-email.me>, 
> >> Arne Vajhøj <ar... at vajhoej.dk> wrote: 
> >>>>     Debian 11.5 running on Dell Inspiron 7591 with Intel i7(x86) with PAA 
> >>>>     Debian 11.5 running on Dell Inspiron 7591 with Intel i7(x86) 
> >>>> without PAA 
> >>>>     FreeBSD 13.1 running on Dell Inspiron 7591 with Intel i7(x64) with PAA 
> >>>>     FreeBSD 13.1 running on Dell Inspiron 7591 with Intel i7(x64) 
> >>>> without PAA 
> >>>>     macOS 11.5.2 running on Apple i7 Mac Mini with Intel i7(x64) with PAA 
> >>>>     macOS 11.5.2 running on Apple i7 Mac Mini with Intel i7(x64) 
> >>>> without PAA 
> >>>>     macOS 11.5.2 running on Apple M1 Mac Mini with M1 with PAA 
> >>>>     macOS 11.5.2 running on Apple M1 Mac Mini with M1 without PAA 
> >>>> (single-user mode) 
> >>>>     Ubuntu Linux 22.04.1 LTS running on Dell Inspiron 7591 with Intel 
> >>>> i7(x64) with PAA 
> >>>>     Ubuntu Linux 22.04.1 LTS running on Dell Inspiron 7591 with Intel 
> >>>> i7(x64) without PAA 
> >>>>     Windows 10 running on Dell Inspiron 7591 with Intel i7(x64) with PAA 
> >>>>     Windows 10 running on Dell Inspiron 7591 with Intel i7(x64) without 
> >>>> PAA 

> Hypervisors are software. The guest OS running on them is also 
> software. Certifying an OS running on a specific hypervisor on 
> a specific hardware platform is certainly doable.
> >VMS 9.2-1 on a VirtualBox VM setup as ... running on 
> >RockyLinux 9 running on Dell Inspiron 7591 with Intel i7(x64)????
> Sounds pretty bog standard as these things go, but I imagine it 
> would be more like VMS on ESXi on a Dell Xeon thing. Probably 
> much of that combination is already at least partially tested 
> for the US military (ESXi on Dell hardware was very common when 
> I was a communications officer in the US Marine Corps, which 
> wasn't _that_ long ago). 
> 
> - Dan C.


In this specific case, it's just the test/lab configurations that were used. 
Note that it's each OS on two different configurations. 

Linux x86 (where applicable) and x64 in both modes. 
FreeBSD in x64 with both modes. 
macOS on x64 and ARM in both modes. 

The organization that submitted it for validation wanted it tested in all 
those.

Sounds like the lab just used the first 3 machines available that 
could run all the tests under the submission's request. 

But as this is a software module validation, as long as the source is
unmodified for this module, and it passes its own internal unmodified
self-tests, it would be considered validated and approved on VSI VMS 
without any additional need to do anything. 

Since it's only the OpenSSL module itself that's validated. Nothing else.

However, for sake of ease and procurement procedures, OS vendors 
do tend to time to time submit for validation their implementation. 
Especially ones delivered in binary form. But it would be trivial for me 
to get approval and/or defend procurement if I can demonstrate that 
the correct module and version is loaded and in use in the correct 
configuration.