<div dir="ltr">Mark<div><br></div><div>I'm using the pre-built V3.9-0 executables with networking support built by your kind self, downloaded from github.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div>This boots OK using a real VAXstation 4000/VLC.</div><div><br></div><div>Same results regardless of idle flag.</div><div><br></div><div>Host system is Windows Server 2012 R2.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the help, Mark.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 8 March 2015 at 23:44, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Mark@infocomm.com" target="_blank">Mark@infocomm.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Hi Mark,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">That another system actually can boot from the AlphaVM system is good info.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Meanwhile several questions come up:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><span>1)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">What version of simh are you running on that SIMH instance?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><span>2)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">How did you configure the SIMH instance to boot from the AlphaVM system (what was done on the AlphaVM box)?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><span>3)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Do you get the same results with SET CPU IDLE vs SET CPU NOIDLE in effect?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><span>4)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">What host system are you running on?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><span>5)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">What is your network configuration/topology?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><span>-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">          </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Mark<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div style="border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt"><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Simh [mailto:<a href="mailto:simh-bounces@trailing-edge.com" target="_blank">simh-bounces@trailing-edge.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mark Wickens<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, March 08, 2015 4:38 PM<span class=""><br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:simh@trailing-edge.com" target="_blank">simh@trailing-edge.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [Simh] Issue with MOP booting SIMH instance from AlphaVM<u></u><u></u></span></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Regards, Mark<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>