[Info-vax] Locally mount vms volumes in Linux

[Henry Crun]

On 26/02/11 11:02, gregor.oelze wrote:
> On 26 Feb., 00:42, bur... at Encompasserve.org (Graham Burley) wrote:
>> In article<f2f9a73b-ae71-43d0-8f25-2f8a6fdc5... at t13g2000vbo.googlegroups.com>, "gregor.oelze"<gregor.oe... 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?
>
> The dd image is actually running in simh - booting and everything.
> The
> problem is - that due changes of (simulated) hardware and licence
> problems or some other problems we haven't thought about yet -
> tcpware is not running so we can't communicate with the other host
> in the network to transfer files.
>
> Thats why i was hoping to "shortcut" the problem with mounting the
> dsk(dd-image) and extract the changed files and transfer them via
> ftp client on the ubuntu host.
>
> best regards
> Gregor Oelze
As a workaround: do you have a serial port that is recognized by the emulator?
If so have a look at Kermit; there are versions for OpenVMS, Linux, DOS or whatever.

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