[Info-vax] VMWare ESXi emulator

[Brian Schenkenberger]

On 2025-02-07 01:43:46 +0000, Subcommandante XDelta said:

> On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 18:53:06 -0500, Brian Schenkenberger
> <mail at SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote:
> 
>> WHERE IN THE WORLD DO I GET THIS STUFF?
>> 
>> Google leads me around and around. I've created VMSware accounts,
>> Broadcom accounts, gawd only knows where account, etc. I still don't
>> have this software to download and run this VMS X86.
>> 
>> - VAXman
> 
> Check the proceedings and transactions of the comp.os.vms collegiate,
> from the beginning of December.

Well, ever since aioe.org went south, I've been forced to use Unison on 
my Mac for news. The damn Unison thing pukes up a hairball nearly every 
time I touch the keyboard which is why I've been so absent here. I so 
miss using newsrdr on VMS.

Anyway, after much anquish, I do dinally have VMS running on an HP 
17-cn0021nr (???) laptop with Intel Quad-Core i5-10210U (???), 32GB 
memory, 1TB storage and, the best of all, NO WEENDOZE!!! It arrived 
with Linux Mint installed. I'm not a fan of the Mint UI but since this 
will basically be a VMS "server" I don't care.

I finally got VMS to boot with the Virtualbox emulator late evening 
yesterday. After little more finagling earlier this morning and I was 
able to ssh into it from my Mac! I'd perfer to be able to use the Mac 
as its iTerm does a fairly faithful emulation of a VT terminal and I 
can use the extended keyboard too to give me a functional alternate 
keypad. Now, all I need to do is get this thing working in a cluster 
environment so that I can share my source code drives and get RMS-CDC 
ported and maybe a few more things too!!!

— VAXman