[Info-vax] Free to use Alpha emulators for Linux x86_64 ?

[Paul Sture]

On 2015-03-24, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
wrote:
> I've just gone to download the freely available Alpha emulator for
> Linux x86_64 from Stromasys and found it no longer appears to exist. :-(
> The URL I used was: http://www.stromasys.ch/downloads/
>
> FreeAXP is still available but is Windows only.
>
> My experiments with the open source emulator ES40 about 18 months ago
> were not encouraging.
>
> Does anyone know of a freely available Alpha emulator for Linux ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Simon.
>
> PS: While doing another search, I've just found EmuVM so that's one
> I now know about. :-)

I don't know of any others but I have had AlphaFreeVM aka EmuVM working
on Scientific Linux 6.5.  It's rather slow on an HP Microserver but
that's a reflection of the speed of the host at 1.4-ish GHz.

I'd post my config file but at the moment that system is currently
running FreeBSD, and in spite of the documentation saying it supports
the XFS file system (where my backups are), trying to recompile the
kernel for XFS support gave me messages informing me that XFS support
got withdrawn.  I think I'll ask for a refund :-)

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