[Info-vax] VSI Community License Program - x86

[Neil Rieck]

On Saturday, April 15, 2023 at 3:07:28 PM UTC-4, 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  <johnhre... 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? 
> 
> Arne

Is that script (vmscheck.py) publicly available?

Neil Rieck
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
https://neilrieck.net