Now why would you do THAT?

    I am publishing this as a service to the community, because there wasn't a clear section in the OpenVMS (X86) documentation that walks a new admin through the bring-up process for OpenVMS on KVM. I haven't attempted to duplicate the OpenVMS documentation because that would be rather silly.  Instead I have focused on the nuances of getting it running under KVM.   You can download the document here If this is of use to you, please leave me a comment.