[lunatic]

Did Itanium have any virtualisation support ?

Yes. Some later Itanium revisions had virtualization support and HP offered "integrity virtual machines".
Even before that, the bigger HP9000 had hardware partitioning.

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I'm gonna run POWER Linux likely with KVM to develop my own POWER-based OS, and then when that OS is sufficiently stable, switch to that on bare metal.

And... do you like it? I think I remember that you didn't really like Linux.
OpenBSD seems to have a 64bit PowerPC port.

Apple's business practices sicken me, plain and simple. That's why I would almost never give them any money.

My problem is that I need software that is not available on Linux. If I get off the Mac, I would need to go for a Windows / Linux dual boot system. I also mostly like the Apple products. It is company policy that I don't like. Leaving Apple and going to Google or Microsoft doesn't feel like a win, really.

[jwhat]

Hi Robespierre & co,

thanks for feedback on my Virtualisation questions.

You are right about IBM doing initial work on VM.

I have copy "An Introduction to Operating Systems by Harvey M. Deitel - © 1984" from uni days, where it was standard OS text (before Linux) and it has case study chapter on "VM: A Virtual Machine Operating System". Back in uni days this all seemed very complicated and I questioned the value.

Nowaday's I use VMs all the time not due to divide capacity up, but simply because it make it so easy to manage.

I span up a dedicated VM the other day just to run GIMP and use ImageMagick conversion tools.

Cheers from Oz,

jwhat/John.

[Shiunbird]

OMG... .DS_STORE
This litters network shares like the plague.
I share the hatred.

I'm slowly on the way out from Apple (hard to break out from some 20 year old workflows), so, yea.

The C8000 is a lovely machine. I wish someone with more skills than me would fix hardware OpenGL acceleration on Linux.
Sadly, it can't run some of the old software. I'm eager to document some of the old HP graphics demos. The documentation is very scarce compared to SGI.

[lunatic]

The C8000 is a lovely machine. I wish someone with more skills than me would fix hardware OpenGL acceleration on Linux.
Sadly, it can't run some of the old software. I'm eager to document some of the old HP graphics demos. The documentation is very scarce compared to SGI.

I think that part is documented. I am not very much into graphics, but the C8000 uses the newer AGP cards like the ATI FireGL series. The old graphics environments are just not supported on these cards. IIRC they only do OpenGL, but not PHIGS (etc...).
Even for OpenGL you need to install all the required software or you just get X11, but not OpenGL. It's the same with the Itanium machines. In fact it is worse for Itanium, because some later HP-UX releases cut 3D support, but retain X11 support. It then depends on the version of HP-UX CDs/DVDs you used to install the system and sometimes the specific patches you installed. If you have specific questions, you need to describe exactly what configuration (hardware/software/patch status) you have and maybe someone can find an answer.