[Info-vax] Broadcom ends availablility of the free edition ESXi Hypervisor

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/14/2024 8:55 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 2/14/2024 8:17 AM, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
>> On 2/12/2024 12:42 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> For those of you using the free ESXi Hypervisor to run VMS on x86-64,
>>> be aware Broadcom have now removed the free edition download:
>>>
>>> https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2107518?lang=en_US
>>>
>>>  From that document:
>>>
>>> |Along with the termination of perpetual licensing, Broadcom has also
>>> |decided to discontinue the Free ESXi Hypervisor, marking it as EOGA 
>>> (End
>>> |of General Availability).
>>
>> So as a Hobbyist/casual user of OpenVMS, which virtualization platform 
>> would you switch to if leaving VMWare?  Oracle's VirtualBox or a KVM 
>> derivative?  Why?  Something that runs on Linux, hopefully, rather 
>> than Windows based.
> 
> As a hobbyist VMS user then ESXi seems like an overkill anyway.
> 
> VMWare Player seems like a better fit. And it is still free for
> personal non-commercial use (similar to VMS community license
> program).

Otherwise the release notes at:
   https://docs.vmssoftware.com/vsi-openvms-x86-64-v922-release-notes/
list what VSI has tested.

Arne