[Info-vax] VSI OpenVMS Community License

[Chris Townley]

On 09/11/2024 16:45, John Dallman wrote:
> In article <memo.20240327143819.1408P at jgd.cix.co.uk>, jgd at cix.co.uk (John
> Dallman) wrote:
> 
>> * QEMU seems to be pretty complex, or at least, ill-documented.
>> * VirtualBox is from Oracle, and thus subject to corporate whims.
>> * VMware is from Broadcom, whose swingeing price rises are putting
>>    everyone off the product.
>>
>> My employers are large-scale users of VMware, but the price rises
>> have them looking hard at alternatives.
> 
> They've concluded that VMware is not worth the money Broadcom want for it
> and are switching to a KVM-based solution.
> 
> Broadcom seem to believe they have something uniquely capable, and the
> market will happily absorb huge price rises. They are gradually being
> shown this is not the case. Their special one-off offer to us was only a
> 5x price increase for one year, plus steep rises after that.
> 
> We're a 25k people company, but only a couple of hundred TechOps staff
> create or maintain VMs themselves. Since the Broadcom price increase was
> more than the total annual salaries and costs of those people, the
> decision to switch was pretty easy.
> 
> Everyone else just uses VMs, and that's the same whatever vitalisation
> they're running on.
> 
> VSI should probably put another vitalisation supplier at the head of the
> supported list.
> 
> John

As a bit of a virtualisation newbie (apart from briefly using Virtualbox 
on windows, and finding it painful) I set up an Ubuntu box and installed 
KVM/QEMU.

I found it fairly easy to set up a virtual VMS instance, with only one 
retry!

I now find it fairly easy - there are loads of hints/guides on the interweb

-- 
Chris