[Simh] Deathrow OpenVMS SIMH Node.. Hosted by OpenVMS?

[Bill Korendyk]

Hi,

I was intrigued by the recent flurry of discussion on having
a SimH/VAX node in the Deathrow Cluster. 

But the first question that came to my mind was whether Deathrow
(being somewhat OpenVMS oriented) considered using OpenVMS/Alpha
as the host for SimH/VAX? 

When I tried it a few months back (I am also somewhat OpenVMS
oriented) I ran into a problem I was unable to resolve (due to
lack of time). I thought this might be a good time to raise the 
issue again. A copy of my earlier post to this list is appended 
below. Comments are welcome :-]

Of course, if it runs well hosted on OpenVMS/Alpha, I'd try to 
(re)build a SimH/VAX distribution for OpenVMS/I64... OpenVMS is 
OpenVMS after all ;-)

\bill
{ --------------- Original Message ---------------
{ Subject: No networking when trying a SIMH/VAX on OpenVMS/Alpha
{ To: simh at trailing-edge.com
{ From: "Bill Korendyk" <bill at korendyk.net>
{ Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:30:23 -0700
{ 
{ Hi,
{ 
{ Looking at Simh I thought I might try the VAX emulator on an
{ Alphaserver DS10 running OpenVMS V7.3-2. Built the images, 
{ configured some disks, loaded and installed OpenVMS/VAX V7.3, 
{ and it all runs as expected, except... no networking:
{ 
{      VAX simulator V3.8-0
{      sim> sho xq eth
{      ETH devices:
{        no network devices are available
{      sim>
{ 
{ Started looking at it a bit and found that "pcap_open_live" in 
{ pcap-vms seems to fail when it attempts to "Create a VCI port".
{ Returned status indicates:
{ 
{      %SYSTEM-F-DEVACTIVE, device is active
{ 
{ Before I delve too deeply into this I thought I'd ask if there
{ was something I might have missed? 
{ 
{ Thanks
{ \bill
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