[Info-vax] Locally mount vms volumes in Linux

[Graham Burley]

In article <f2f9a73b-ae71-43d0-8f25-2f8a6fdc5b7c at t13g2000vbo.googlegroups.com>, "gregor.oelze" <gregor.oelze at gmail.com> writes:
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>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 must be missing something here - why not just transfer the dd image
onto the host where SIMH is running and attach (and mount) it in SIMH?