It runs quite slowly, (486-levels of performance on a Ryzen 5000 series according to [this discord channel] (https://discord.com/channels/712491206986170440/1520321862213566474)) but hey, it runs at all. How cool is that! Let's hope development continues and we might even get to run OpenVMS on Itanium, emulated. HP-UX would be nice as well, but I care more for OpenVMS. As far as I know there are no commercial Itanium emulators yet. You can read more about the [Intel Itanium (IA-64) CPU on Wikipedia] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium) and here is a [great video] (https://youtu.be/3oxrybkd7Mo) from RetroBytes with some more history. Basically it was a promising architecture, but didn't make it and effectively it was only used for HP-UX and OpenVMS in the later years. But [OpenVMS is now available on x86](/s/blog/OpenVMS_9.2_for_x86_will_be_released_tomorrow.html) and HP-UX is dead in the water, no migration path available there. I don't think Windows on Itanium was ever used intensively. If you do know of more usage in the real world, please let me know. Here are two more screenshots, also showing Windows XP 64-bit for the Itaium:   The screenshots come from [discord](https://discord.com/channels/712491206986170440/1520321862213566474). The emulator was announced on [Twitter](https://nitter.net/x86corez/status/2078431660299743303):  The code is not open source, but the twitter thread stated: > Once cleaned up, it will be available here: [https://github.com/TheBrokenPipe/ski](https://github.com/TheBrokenPipe/ski). ***Update: 2026-07-20: There seems to be a QEMU fork that can also run Server 2008***. See [this repo](https://github.com/syunnPC/qemu-system-ia64). I haven't checked that one out but it does state that it's written using LLM's. Was mentioned on the Discord server. Screenshots:   --- License: All the text on this website is free as in freedom unless stated otherwise. This means you can use it in any way you want, you can copy it, change it the way you like and republish it, as long as you release the (modified) content under the same license to give others the same freedoms you've got and place my name and a link to this site with the article as source. This site uses Google Analytics for statistics and Google Adwords for advertisements. You are tracked and Google knows everything about you. Use an adblocker like ublock-origin if you don't want it. All the code on this website is licensed under the GNU GPL v3 license unless already licensed under a license which does not allows this form of licensing or if another license is stated on that page / in that software: This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see