[Simh] Booting a real VAX from an emulated one

[Robert Jarratt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-
> edge.com] On Behalf Of Eric Smith
> Sent: 01 July 2014 21:22
> To: simh at trailing-edge.com
> Subject: [Simh] Booting a real VAX from an emulated one
> 
> I apologize in advance .. I may well be posting this in the wrong forum.
If so, if
> someone would be so kind as to redirect me offline I would appreciate it.
> 
> I have a uVAX 3900 I rescued about 10 years ago.  It was headed for a
> dumpster.  It has two 300 meg drives and 16M of RAM, one non-functional
tape
> drive, and a qbus card I have a 10 meg network adapter plugged into.
> 
> It had VMS v 5.something on it I believe at the time.  Over the years I
> (inadvertently) mangled that installation trying to learn VMS and ended up
> putting an instance of OpenBSD on it.  I did this by running mopd on
another
> unix box and booting the VAX over the network.
> 
> I would like to install VMS on it again, but not sure how to get it there.
The
> tape drive doesn't pull tape anymore.
> 
> I'm thinking you VMS experts know a way I can use my SIMH VAX VMS
> emulation to boot the real VAX from? I'm thinking it is possible to boot
VMS this
> way, and/or do a VMS installation this way, correct?
> 
> Again, I realize this isn't a purely SIMH post, so if more appropriate to
contact
> me offline, please do.  Any direct help or just pointers to an online
resource
> would be much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks!
> Eric KD5UWL
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I do this regularly. Don't have a lot of time at the moment to explain, but
the basic thing to do is create a cluster on SIMH, then add your real
machine as a satellite (you need to know it's MAC address).

Hope that gives you some pointers.

Regards

Rob