[HECnet] VMS on zx6000 - argh?

On 8-7-2011 1:17, Sampsa Laine wrote: Marco, Is it possible to run VMS in a virtual machine (I think 8.4 supports being a guest on Itanium) on a zx6000? What about a rx2600? Unfortunately, no. The version is right, but the rx2600 is not of a recent enough architecture to support HPVM (or "IntegrityVM"). One must at least have a 9000 (Montecito), 9100 (Montvale) or 9300 (Tukwila) series IA-64 processor. The rx2600 supports the Madison (at 1500 MHz, with 6 MB cache) at most. Then, as Mark just said, there's also the hypervisor and licensing issue. On the HP public/anonymous FTP, there's a HP-UX .depot-file that contains "HPVM" in the filename. Maybe it's worth taking a look at? I guess it can't hurt to try? But, don't count too much on it. - MG