[Simh] Re: Simh Digest, Vol 19, Issue 7

[Bob Supnik]

As far as I know, you can't migrate an existing commercial VMS license to 
SimH.  VMS commercial licenses are not valid on SimH, only the hobbyist 
license.  HP will not support VMS on SimH.  It will support VMS on 
Charon/VAX, provided that the underlying hardware is from HP.

I don't know if a VMS disk from one system can successfully boot on a 
different hardware platform.  VMS doesn't have a SYSGEN procedure; it 
discovers how to configure itself during the boot process and loads the 
proper modules accordingly.  If you want to try your disk image on SimH, 
you need to "roll out" the disk as a block-by-block image to a file.  For 
example, you could copy the system disk and save it as a file on a PC using 
TCP/IP.  (I don't know  what VMS comand would do this.)  Then configure 
SimH's MSCP disk to have the same storage capacity as the disk image, 
attach the disk image to RQ0, and see if it will boot.

/Bob Supnik

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>Date: Wed, 15 Jun 10:24:48 2005 +0000
>From: "Angel" <angeld at xasamail.com>
>Subject: [Simh] Migration utilities.
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>Sirs, I am trying to replace a VAX machine with SIMH; what is not
>clear for me is which are the right utilities, and how to use it,
>to do the job without reinstalling the whole VMS OS again.
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>Thank you very much for your kind collaboration.
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