[Simh] Issue with MOP booting SIMH instance from AlphaVM

[Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm]

Hi Mark,

First,  Please use the latest binaries for the latest codebase:  https://github.com/simh/Win32-Development-Binaries

Second, please attach the simh instance to the same network interface that the AlphaVM is connected to.

Let me know.


-        Mark
From: Mark Wickens [mailto:mark at wickensonline.co.uk]
Sent: Sunday, March 8, 2015 5:07 PM
To: Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm
Cc: simh at trailing-edge.com
Subject: Re: [Simh] Issue with MOP booting SIMH instance from AlphaVM

Mark

I'm using the pre-built V3.9-0 executables with networking support built by your kind self, downloaded from github.

The AlphaVM box has MOP characteristics defined as shown. The box has a separate drive pointed to by logical ALPEPHSYSTEM$ that contains an ODS-2 OpenVMS VAX 7.3 installation.
This boots OK using a real VAXstation 4000/VLC.

Same results regardless of idle flag.

Host system is Windows Server 2012 R2.

Network configuration is as follows: the box has two inbuilt ethernet ports and a 4 gigabit port card. The AlphaVM instance and SIMH instance are attached to different ethernet ports. All ports are connected to a 24 port HP Gbit switch.

Thanks for the help, Mark.


On 8 March 2015 at 23:44, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm <Mark at infocomm.com<mailto:Mark at infocomm.com>> wrote:
Hi Mark,

That another system actually can boot from the AlphaVM system is good info.

Meanwhile several questions come up:


1)      What version of simh are you running on that SIMH instance?

2)      How did you configure the SIMH instance to boot from the AlphaVM system (what was done on the AlphaVM box)?

3)      Do you get the same results with SET CPU IDLE vs SET CPU NOIDLE in effect?

4)      What host system are you running on?

5)      What is your network configuration/topology?


-          Mark

From: Simh [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com<mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com>] On Behalf Of Mark Wickens
Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2015 4:38 PM
To: simh at trailing-edge.com<mailto:simh at trailing-edge.com>
Subject: [Simh] Issue with MOP booting SIMH instance from AlphaVM

Sorry, I should add that the actual VAXstation 4000/VLC box that the SIMH instance is emulating does MOP boot sucessfully off the AlphaVM instance.

Regards, Mark

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