[Info-vax] Itanium emulator (was Re: OpenVMS.Org quick poll)

[Keith Parris]

On 8/17/2012 8:04 PM, John E. Malmberg wrote:
> The
> SKI emulator would have to be further enhanced.  Based on the
> description on the project page, the SKI emulator appears to be only
> emulating the user mode instructions, not the stuff needed for the VMS
> kernel to run.

 From http://ski.sourceforge.net/, first paragraph:
"ski supports the full instruction set of the architecture, including 
privileged instructions and associated semantics."

> Now you have a x86 VMS emulator
> that can run Alpha, IA64, and native X86-64 all at the same time.

Given that Simh VAX emulation code is well-proven and readily available 
in open source form, you could use the same approach to execute VAX 
executable images as well.