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From: jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman)
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Subject: Re: Bare Metal VMS (Frame.Work Laptops) <<<< complete answer late
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 12:34 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
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In article <vhti7a$1sg3t$1@dont-email.me>, vlf@star.enet.dec.com
(Subcommandante XDelta) wrote:

> Perhaps the VMSGenerations group could amongst its members, 
> identify two rock solid, industry standard, server blades, 
> one Intel, and one AMD, though in the former case, not using 
> the latest generation of CPUs - from what I gather they are 
> a bit dodgy.

Blades are not as big a thing as they used to be, and supporting just two
blades locks bare-metal VMS into that blade manufacturer's offerings.
When you have a niche OS, you don't want to give customers' finance
people an extra reason to dislike it. 

> As for Hypervisor/VMS, perhaps, this is an interesting option, to 
> make it a little more palatable to the VMS ecosystem:
> 
> https://blackberry.qnx.com/en/ultimate-guides/embedded-hypervisor

Demanding a hypervisor that isn't well-established in business IT is
another thing for customers' management to dislike. 

The VSI plan is to run on the well-established hypervisors, and confine
the unfamiliar aspects of VMS to individual virtual machines. Sadly,
Broadcom's greed after taking over VMware is making that harder. 

John