Is there a place (website) where i can find information on which VM is needed (minimum/maximum) for a specific Pharo or Squeak release on a specific OS?
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Is there a place (website) where i can find information on which VM is needed (minimum/maximum) for a specific Pharo or Squeak release on a specific OS?
I don’t know if that exact information is documented, but I can try to give you a brief explanation… Even Pharo and Squeak paths have diverged a lot in the last times.
Pharo Official VM is the CogVM which is a StackVM with JIT. Then it also have StackVMs for platforms where code generation is not allowed.
The official virtual machines for Pharo are listed in http://www.pharo-project.org/pharo-download, and they work for sure from Pharo 1.2 up to Pharo 2.0. You can also have a look at the complete set of built vms in the CI server https://ci.lille.inria.fr/pharo/view/Cog/.
For older releases, Pharo (1.0 and 1.1) keeps a history of one-click distribution where the vm is freezed along with the image. You can find them in here: https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/?group_id=1299
On the other side, for Squeak, the same CogVMs should work in their latest versions, otherwise you should get an interpreter VM from http://squeakvm.org/index.html.
Hope it helps a bit