[Info-vax] Locally mount vms volumes in Linux

[gregor.oelze]

Hello list,

I recently started a discussion how to get tcpware on our vms 5.x
version to work on simh,
simulated on a spare ubuntu machine.

There seem to be many problems regarding the licenses and migration-
problems with the virtual hardware, so I asked myself if it could be
possible - to mount the available dd-image of the microvax harddrive
somehow in linux, so we can extract the compiled programs out of the
vms system and transfer them to the targetmachine via ftp on the same
host - where simh is running.

I did some research and just found entires from way back 1995. Is
there a way to mount the vms image (i understand it is a ods-2
volume?) on a Linux (f.e. ubuntu/debian) machine without decnet,
multinet, tcpware or any kind of network?

best regards

Gregor Oelze

PS: The VMS system was running on a Microvax 3100.