You can probably run vista natively on OpenBSD depending on the version. OpenVista and WorldVista are quite similar, but FOIA Vista will take more tweaking. Otherwise, install OpenBSD first and then, second, your favorite linux flavor and work from that, grub is usually good about finding OpenBSD. If you go that route, then the "Astronaut" installer is the easiest.
The main hurdle for running vista natively on openbsd is the M (aka MUMPS aka ANSI/MDC X11.1-1995) database engine. Most are built around GT.M [2], but that takes a little cleverness to port to OpenBSD. MV1 [3] compiles with little adjustment on OpenBSD, but then Vista must be tweaked. A third option is MDH[4], which takes the MUMPS database instructions and converts them to C, but that probably requires more adjustment to vista itself. There are fairly well documented APIs for working with vista, such as for a Java front-end [5] and the whole system is exceedingly well-documented. e.g. ftp://ftp.va.gov/vista/Software/Package%20Domain%20Info/ERdiagrams/ Regards, -Lars [1] MUMPS/M : ANSI/MDC X11.1-1995 :: SQL : ISO/IEC 9075-1:2008 [2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/fis-gtm/ [3] http://sourceforge.net/projects/mumps/ [4] http://math-cs.cns.uni.edu/~okane/mumps.html [5] http://sourceforge.net/projects/gtm4j/
