[Info-vax] VSI Community License Program - x86

[Chris Townley]

On 03/11/2023 14:37, Neil Rieck wrote:
> 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

See https://vmssoftware.com/openkits/alpopensource/vmscheck.zip

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Chris