[Info-vax] Locally mount vms volumes in Linux

[Snowshoe]

On 2/25/2011 11:32 AM, gregor.oelze wrote:
> 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?

I'll piggyback on this question with another question.

With the new partition-like structure that supports the Itanic EFI
($ INIT/GPT), is it now theoretically possible to create a partitioned 
disk that contains a VMS segment and a Windoze and/or Linux partition, 
all on the same drive? I realize that VMS doesn't do partitions and it 
will want to use the whole drive, so (from VMS's viewpoint) you'd 
probably have to do something like hide the non-VMS portion in a 
container file that you can't mess with. (like [000000]GPT.SYS)