[Info-vax] Locally mount vms volumes in Linux

[gregor.oelze]

On Feb 25, 7:18 pm, Snowshoe <n... at spam.please> wrote:
> On 2/25/2011 11:32 AM, gregor.oelze wrote:
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> > 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)

Hi,

was that an additional question to the same topic or a hidden
answer? :)

best regards
Gregor Oelze