[Info-vax] VSI OpenVMS Community License

[David Goodwin]

In article <vgo57d$3sm9l$1 at dont-email.me>, news at cct-net.co.uk says...
> 
> 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

Yeah, I had no trouble setting up OpenVMS x86 on KVM/QEMU - worked just 
fine first try and I was busy configuring it to be a web server hosting 
some OpenVMS related bits as well as testing C-Kermit/Kermit 95 stuff 
when the community license program went away :(