[Info-vax] New free Alpha emulator - AlphaVM-free

[Sprag]

On May 17, 11:40 am, artem <brakozi... at gmail.com> wrote:
> As a reaction to multiple requests a Linux version is released (http://emuvm.com).
> Linux release notes:
> •     There is no  launcher available yet. The VM must be launched manually from the command line.  A configuration file must be provided by the user.  The user manual contains a configuration file example (see the section about running from command line).
> •     There is no installation procedure yet.  Just download the executable and run it. Run the executable as alphavm-free <config-file>.  
> •     The VM has been tested with Debian 6.0.1a x64.
> •     The build is for x64.  The x86 version is not yet tested. Please contact us if you are interested in x86 version.
> •     The disk and iso image files must be regular files.
> •     Ethernet PCAP emulation can be used only under root, or if the VM is setuid to root, or if the user has certain capabilities, like CAP_NET_RAW and CAP_NET_ADMIN.  If the emulator fails to open network, it crashes with SIGSEGV when trying to access the PCAP.
> •     PUTTY terminals are not started automatically (which is normally done by the launcher). They must be started manually. Putty must be configured in RAW mode localhost:2000 and options LOCAL ECHO and LOCAL LINE EDITING set to FORCED OFF.
> •     There is no utility for cvreation of empty disk images. These can be downloaded fromhttp://emuvm.com

Great...except that it doesn't work at all on RHEL 6 :(

Segfaults instantly and ldd can't open it to get the library
dependencies. objdump says its truncated.  Here's what I have:

$ ls -al alphavm_free-1-0-5-linux_x64.exe
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 bdwheele bdwheele 2847341 May 17 20:51
alphavm_free-1-0-5-linux_x64.exe
$ md5sum alphavm_free-1-0-5-linux_x64.exe
0a3e3d524277e7a8c793a050ca75cb26  alphavm_free-1-0-5-linux_x64.exe

The x86 version behaves similarly.