[Info-vax] Bare Metal VMS (Frame.Work Laptops) <<<< complete answer late

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/26/2024 12:46 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 11/26/2024 11:41 AM, John Reagan wrote:
>> On 11/25/2024 10:06 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> And dev systems is different. VirtualBox, Player/WorkStation,
>>> KVM etc..
>>>
>>> (I know VirtualBox has been pushed a lot for this, but given
>>> peoples experience on both Windows and Linux has been very painful,
>>> then VSI should probably consider dropping that)
>>
>> All I use is VirtualBox on Windows10 and Windows11 systems.  Works 
>> great out of the box on W10.  It took a few W11 changes to avoid VB 
>> and HyperV from bumping into each other but once I made those changes, 
>> VB works fine on my W11 laptop.  There are several of us internal 
>> folks that use VB.
> 
> Not everyone can get rid of anything Hyper-V as other stuff may require
> Hyper-V.
> 
> There has been several with problems using VirtualBox on Windows
> due to Hyper-V conflict.

For those that want to mess with it then VSI do have a page
about it:

https://wiki.vmssoftware.com/Windows_host_compatibility_settings_for_OpenVMS_on_x86_VirtualBox_guests

Arne