[Simh] Best way to 'P2V' a live VAX?

[Peter Moreton]

I see, so just  1: Install VMS in SIMH with ethernet enabled 2: Backup remote VAX files to local SIMH virtual disks 3: Boot the copied virtual disks in SIMH I guess that will work. I was thinking of some method to copy the source volumes block-for-block, but whatever works is good! ThanksPeter.

> Subject: RE: [Simh] Best way to 'P2V' a live VAX?> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:31:00 +0100> From: A.Bucher at alcatel-lucent.de> To: petermoreton at hotmail.co.uk> > Hi, > > if you are willing to spend the effort:> > - Install new VMS on simh (or modify the existing VAX to support remote> boot and do a netboot of the SIMH VAX. This would save you from> installing VMS, but requires to modify the existing config.)> - Define additional empty disk(s) on SIMH to hold the data of a old> VAXes volumes and mount them> - Connect both to the same network and adjust rights, so that you can> reach the SIMH VAX from the real VAX> - On the existing VAX, run a backup of all files, destination are the> empty SIMH VAX disks> > Now, if you boot up the SIM VAX from the disk copied with backup before,> it should run the original VAX configuration.> > You could also setup the SIMH VAX to support network boot, then boot the> real VAX from the SIMH VAX (or boot standalone backup this way) and copy> over all files to the empty SIMH volumes and then reboot it from there.> > > I did similar procedures to duplicate P2P and also P2V - but it was> several years ago, so I don't quite remember all details, just the> general procedure :-) My usual way of "installing", i.e. cloning VAXes> was to remote-boot the new VAX from the existing one and then copy over> all remote disks to local, then reboot local and adapt the configuration> to match the requirements. If the new VAX is a real or simulated one> does not matter, I'd say.> > kind regards,> Andreas> > > > > -----Original Message-----> > From: simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com > > [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Peter Moreton> > Sent: Freitag, 25. Januar 2008 12:06> > To: simh at trailing-edge.com> > Subject: [Simh] Best way to 'P2V' a live VAX?> > > > I want to 'P2V' a couple of very old VAX 4000-300 machines > > that are used for software support; IIRC they use tiny (by > > modern standards) RF31 disks. What would be the easiest > > method to get the boot and data disks from the Physical VAX > > world into a Virtual SIMH world?> > > > thanks. 
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