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<div dir="ltr"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2">HI,</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma">do you have VMS Cluster active? If yes, just boot SIMH as a sattelite into the cluster, copy the disks into virtual disks of the SIMH node - then you should be able to boot SIMH from the copy.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma">HTH</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma">Andreas</font></div>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>Von:</b> simh-bounces@trailing-edge.com [simh-bounces@trailing-edge.com] im Auftrag von Peter Moreton [petermoreton@hotmail.co.uk]<br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Freitag, 25. Jänner 2008 12:37<br>
<b>An:</b> simh@trailing-edge.com<br>
<b>Betreff:</b> Re: [Simh] Best way to 'P2V' a live VAX?<br>
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<div>I see, so just <br>
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1: Install VMS in SIMH with ethernet enabled<br>
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2: Backup remote VAX files to local SIMH virtual disks<br>
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3: Boot the copied virtual disks in SIMH<br>
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I guess that will work. I was thinking of some method to copy the source volumes block-for-block, but whatever works is good!<br>
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Thanks<br>
Peter.<br>
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> Subject: RE: [Simh] Best way to 'P2V' a live VAX?<br>
> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:31:00 +0100<br>
> From: A.Bucher@alcatel-lucent.de<br>
> To: petermoreton@hotmail.co.uk<br>
> <br>
> Hi, <br>
> <br>
> if you are willing to spend the effort:<br>
> <br>
> - Install new VMS on simh (or modify the existing VAX to support remote<br>
> boot and do a netboot of the SIMH VAX. This would save you from<br>
> installing VMS, but requires to modify the existing config.)<br>
> - Define additional empty disk(s) on SIMH to hold the data of a old<br>
> VAXes volumes and mount them<br>
> - Connect both to the same network and adjust rights, so that you can<br>
> reach the SIMH VAX from the real VAX<br>
> - On the existing VAX, run a backup of all files, destination are the<br>
> empty SIMH VAX disks<br>
> <br>
> Now, if you boot up the SIM VAX from the disk copied with backup before,<br>
> it should run the original VAX configuration.<br>
> <br>
> You could also setup the SIMH VAX to support network boot, then boot the<br>
> real VAX from the SIMH VAX (or boot standalone backup this way) and copy<br>
> over all files to the empty SIMH volumes and then reboot it from there.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> I did similar procedures to duplicate P2P and also P2V - but it was<br>
> several years ago, so I don't quite remember all details, just the<br>
> general procedure :-) My usual way of "installing", i.e. cloning VAXes<br>
> was to remote-boot the new VAX from the existing one and then copy over<br>
> all remote disks to local, then reboot local and adapt the configuration<br>
> to match the requirements. If the new VAX is a real or simulated one<br>
> does not matter, I'd say.<br>
> <br>
> kind regards,<br>
> Andreas<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> > -----Original Message-----<br>
> > From: simh-bounces@trailing-edge.com <br>
> > [mailto:simh-bounces@trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Peter Moreton<br>
> > Sent: Freitag, 25. Januar 2008 12:06<br>
> > To: simh@trailing-edge.com<br>
> > Subject: [Simh] Best way to 'P2V' a live VAX?<br>
> > <br>
> > I want to 'P2V' a couple of very old VAX 4000-300 machines <br>
> > that are used for software support; IIRC they use tiny (by <br>
> > modern standards) RF31 disks. What would be the easiest <br>
> > method to get the boot and data disks from the Physical VAX <br>
> > world into a Virtual SIMH world?<br>
> > <br>
> > thanks. <br>
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