VMS Software, Inc. has migrated OpenVMS and its layered products to the industry standard x86_64 architecture to help customers protect their investment in OpenVMS infrastructure, especially in virtualized environments and in the cloud. OpenVMS E9.2-1 is now available to selected users participating in the field test, and the release version will soon be made available to the rest of the customers. VMS Software, Inc. will keep working on future releases that will provide more functionality and feature more layered and open source products.

For hypervisors on which OpenVMS has been tested by VSI, please scroll down to the bottom of the page. To determine if your system has the CPU features required to run OpenVMS V9.2 or later, run this Python script. Information on the virtual machine hosts tested by VSI is provided below and in the release notes. Depending on your source language, you can compile your code using OpenVMS I64-hosted cross-compilers or natively on OpenVMS x86 depending on the availability of native compilers.

See lists of open source and layered products that work with OpenVMS here (filter by architecture to see those available on x86).

VSI Service Platform is used to distribute OpenVMS for x86. Take a look at this video that explains how to use the VSI Service Platform to download software packages and report bugs (it was made for V9.1, but the same instructions apply for later versions).