[Info-vax] Locally mount vms volumes in Linux

[Bob Koehler]

In article <ik8rpi$s99$1 at speranza.aioe.org>, Snowshoe <no at spam.please> writes:
> 
> I'll piggyback on this question with another question.
> 
> With the new partition-like structure that supports the Itanic EFI
> ($ INIT/GPT), is it now theoretically possible to create a partitioned 
> disk that contains a VMS segment and a Windoze and/or Linux partition, 
> all on the same drive? I realize that VMS doesn't do partitions and it 
> will want to use the whole drive, so (from VMS's viewpoint) you'd 
> probably have to do something like hide the non-VMS portion in a 
> container file that you can't mess with. (like [000000]GPT.SYS)

   Container files for FAT or UFS have been around on VMS for a long
   time, now.  Booting anything other than the EFI console system would 
   be novel.  Also keeping the ability to boot VMS might be a strech.