[Info-vax] Locally mount vms volumes in Linux

[Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOEGER]

In article <f2f9a73b-ae71-43d0-8f25-2f8a6fdc5b7c at t13g2000vbo.googlegroups.com>, "gregor.oelze" <gregor.oelze at gmail.com> writes:
>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.

Yup.

>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.

Don't know.

But we still don't know, what the purpose of this simulated machine is.

If you need to get a file out of the disk *once*, the way with an ODS2
program on Linux *may* be sufficient.

But if you need to get a replacement hardware for the died MicroVAX 3100
(running the GENRAD software for the board test equipment hardware which
is still in use), then I'd go with SIMH or CHARON-VAX or a real VAXstation
In this case, you need to *legally* solve your (VMS & TCPware) license 
issues at all, and with this solve your technical license issues as well.
Both should be no big deal, but will cost money.

If you ignore the legal license problems, the technical ones are solved
by getting an emulated VAX hardware which behaves like the old/real one
(for VMS and for TCPware) - like discussed/explained in previous thread.

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Peter "EPLAN" LANGSTÖGER
Network and OpenVMS system specialist
E-mail  Peter at LANGSTOeGER.at
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