[Info-vax] Locally mount vms volumes in Linux

[gregor.oelze]

On 26 Feb., 10:48, Henry Crun <m... at rechtman.com> wrote:
> 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:
>
> >>> 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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I was able to access a terminal port via telnet. There is an option in
simh to enable a
telnet-server which connects to a seriel port on the system(?).

There is a version of kermit installed in the vms 5.x system which was
set in server
mode. Then, on the ubuntu host i could start ckermit, connecting via
the telnet
command - but it was not able to establish a connection. Afaik, this
is just possible
with an ethernet based - telnet connection. Or was this just a failed
configured setup?