[Info-vax] Locally mount vms volumes in Linux

[Henry Crun]

On 26/02/11 12:49, gregor.oelze wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Mike R.
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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?
If I understood you you are trying to run Kermit over a telnet connection. 
Rather connect an RS232 null-modem cable between ports on the source and target 
machines, and use kermit over that. Either "pull" by logging in to the target 
machine and connecting to the source by kermit, or "push" by logging in to the 
source machine and connecting to the target by kermit.

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