Customer experience with hypervisors untested by VSI

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Customer experience with hypervisors untested by VSI

Post by marty.stu » Wed Mar 22, 2023 5:24 pm

Dear OpenVMS users,

Please use this thread to report your experience with different hypervisors not listed by VSI as compatible with the latest OpenVMS release. For the list of the hypervisors that were proven to be compatible by VSI staff, refer to this document (Section 1.2. Tested Platforms).


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Re: Customer experience with hypervisors untested by VSI

Post by jonesd » Mon May 01, 2023 9:32 am

smirk wrote:
Mon May 01, 2023 9:02 am
Beyond installing it I have not done anything but VMS appears responsive, and demonstrates that nested virtualisation works.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the KSM feature of Proxmox (Linux) seems to happily work with OpenVMS and share it's memory pages between the various VMs.
Is Galaxy still a thing?


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Re: Customer experience with hypervisors untested by VSI

Post by sparcie » Fri May 05, 2023 10:42 am

i zipped my config for UTM on M1, but i assume u can't upload zips?

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Re: Customer experience with hypervisors untested by VSI

Post by dmjb » Fri May 05, 2023 10:55 am

Consider using something like pastebin to share.


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Re: Customer experience with hypervisors untested by VSI

Post by astr0baby » Fri May 05, 2023 4:18 pm

You can perhaps paste the UTM config code here is you use the

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 code metatag like this 


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Re: Customer experience with hypervisors untested by VSI

Post by sparcie » Sat May 06, 2023 8:46 am

it's a directory which behaves like a file (like a application on MacOS). i can upload the template somewhere


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Re: Customer experience with hypervisors untested by VSI

Post by sodjan » Sat May 06, 2023 8:59 am

Why doesn't the "Attachement" tab work?
Why would ZIP's be not allowed?

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Re: Customer experience with hypervisors untested by VSI

Post by dmjb » Sat May 06, 2023 10:19 am

sparcie wrote:
Sat May 06, 2023 8:46 am
it's a directory which behaves like a file (like a application on MacOS). i can upload the template somewhere
Inside that file, there is a config file called `config.plist`. That is the most useful thing to share. The rest of that directory contains the disk images etc. and is not necessary to share.


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Re: Customer experience with hypervisors untested by VSI

Post by mike632t » Sat May 06, 2023 9:02 pm

I've managed to get VMS 9.2-1 installed on qemu on Debian (Buster)

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$ kvm --version
QEMU emulator version 3.1.0 (Debian 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u10)
Copyright (c) 2003-2018 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers

$ virsh version
Compiled against library: libvirt 5.0.0
Using library: libvirt 5.0.0
Using API: QEMU 5.0.0
Running hypervisor: QEMU 3.1.0

$ 
I had some 'fun and games' sorting out exactly how to configure qemu from the command line but once that was sorted everything just worked. Very lovely indeed..!

I've done a quick write up here.

Rather amused to discover that my login .com (that I've been using for about 30 years) had a syntax error in an if statement that earlier versions just ignored and that I'd never noticed.

Great job

Mike T.
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Re: Customer experience with hypervisors untested by VSI

Post by astr0baby » Sun May 07, 2023 12:31 pm

The KVM qemu setup is straight forward, what is needed here is the non-kvm qemu-system-x86_64 simulator config for qemu (where kvm is not possible)

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Re: Customer experience with hypervisors untested by VSI

Post by martin » Mon May 08, 2023 6:36 am

experience with different hypervisors not listed by VSI
Host: AlmaLinux release 8.7 (Stone Smilodon)
MoBo: H81M-PLUS (ASUS)
Memory: 16 GiB
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-4150 CPU @ 3.50GHz

First attempt: Cockpit -> Virtual Machines
Configuration as per release notes was difficult and the installation failed with minimal information.

Second attempt: Virtual Machine Manager
Easy to configure and install. Once installed it was possible to control it through the cockpit application which is Red Hat's preferred method. The start the VM boot it through cockpit, then use cockpit to create a remote viewer graphical console, boot VMS and then use the inbuilt serial console in cockpit.

One happy bunny here! Thanks to VSI for developing the community scheme and bringing us the X86 version.
Martin
  • Retired System Manager: VMS/UNIX/UNICOS/Linux.
  • Started on a VAX 11/782 in 1984 with VMS 3.6.

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