[Info-vax] VSI OpenVMS Hobbyist Program Announced.
Jan-Erik Söderholm
jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com
Sun Jun 16 07:15:14 EDT 2019
A few quick notes from first startup.
As noted before, the download was a but slower than exepected.
No big deal with that...
From start of the downloaded EXE installer to having an logged
in OpenVMS envrionment it took maybe 2-3 minutes.
When running, it takes over 100% of one of the four cores on
my i7-6500U 2.5 GHz Win10 laptop. Works just fine, the fan is
spinning a little faster than usual, but apart from that the
laptop performes as usual.
Some printouts (slightly compressed to avoid line breaks):
$ sh sys
OpenVMS V8.4-2L2 on STUDNT 16-JUN-2019 12:35:17.08 Uptime 0 00:03:51
Pid Process Name State Pri I/O CPU flts Pages
00000081 SWAPPER HIB 16 0 0 00:00:03.04 0 4
00000085 IPCACP HIB 10 10 0 00:00:00.05 37 51
00000086 ERRFMT HIB 9 104 0 00:00:00.07 112 133
00000088 OPCOM HIB 6 45 0 00:00:00.04 65 74
00000089 AUDIT_SERVER HIB 9 56 0 00:00:00.05 148 137
0000008A JOB_CONTROL HIB 9 35 0 00:00:00.02 49 75
0000008C SECURITY_SERVER HIB 10 81 0 00:00:01.40 371 374
0000008D ACME_SERVER HIB 9 73 0 00:00:00.37 511 426 M
00000090 TP_SERVER HIB 9 22 0 00:00:00.14 80 106
00000096 SYSTEM CUR 4 249 0 00:00:00.33 652 138
$ tcpip sh ver
HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Alpha Version V5.7 - ECO 5
on an AlphaServer 400 4/166 running OpenVMS V8.4-2L2
UAF> show /br *
Owner Username UIC Account Privs Pri Directory
DEFAULT [200,200] Normal 4 Disuser
Student STUDENT [100,100] STUDENT Normal 4 SYS$SYSDEVICE:[STUDENT]
SYSTEM MANAGER SYSTEM [1,4] SYSTEM All 4 SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSMGR]
UAF> Exit
$
$
$ prod show hist *
----------------------------------- ----------- ----------- --- -----------
PRODUCT KIT TYPE OPERATION VAL DATE
----------------------------------- ----------- ----------- --- -----------
VSI AXPVMS COBOL V3.1-7 Full LP Install Val 12-MAR-2018
VSI AXPVMS FORTRAN V8.3-3 Full LP Install Val 12-MAR-2018
VSI AXPVMS AVAIL_MAN_BASE V8.4-2L2 Full LP Install (U) 12-MAR-2018
VSI AXPVMS CDSA V2.4-320A Full LP Install 12-MAR-2018
VSI AXPVMS DWMOTIF V1.7-F Full LP Install 12-MAR-2018
VSI AXPVMS DWMOTIF_SUPPORT V8.4-2L2 Full LP Install (U) 12-MAR-2018
VSI AXPVMS HPBINARYCHECKER V1.1-A Full LP Install 12-MAR-2018
VSI AXPVMS KERBEROS V3.1-152B Full LP Install 12-MAR-2018
VSI AXPVMS OPENVMS V8.4-2L2 Platform Install Sys 12-MAR-2018
VSI AXPVMS SSL V1.4-502A Full LP Install 12-MAR-2018
VSI AXPVMS SSL1 V1.0-2KA Full LP Install 12-MAR-2018
VSI AXPVMS TCPIP V5.7-13ECO5F Full LP Install 12-MAR-2018
VSI AXPVMS TDC_RT V2.3-1220 Full LP Install 12-MAR-2018
VSI AXPVMS VMS V8.4-2L2 Oper System Install Sys 12-MAR-2018
VSI AXPVMS CDSA V2.0-109 Full LP Remove - 12-MAR-2018
VSI AXPVMS DWMOTIF V1.3-1 Full LP Remove - 12-MAR-2018
VSI AXPVMS KERBEROS V2.0-6 Full LP Remove - 12-MAR-2018
VSI AXPVMS OPENVMS V7.3-2 Platform Remove - 12-MAR-2018
VSI AXPVMS TCPIP V5.4-15 Full LP Remove - 12-MAR-2018
VSI AXPVMS VMS V7.3-2 Oper System Remove - 12-MAR-2018
VSI AXPVMS CDSA V2.0-109 Full LP Reg Product (U) 12-MAR-2018
VSI AXPVMS DWMOTIF V1.3-1 Full LP Reg Product (U) 12-MAR-2018
VSI AXPVMS KERBEROS V2.0-6 Full LP Reg Product (U) 12-MAR-2018
VSI AXPVMS OPENVMS V7.3-2 Platform Reg Product (U) 12-MAR-2018
VSI AXPVMS TCPIP V5.4-15 Full LP Reg Product (U) 12-MAR-2018
VSI AXPVMS VMS V7.3-2 Oper System Reg Product (U) 12-MAR-2018
----------------------------------- ----------- ----------- --- -----------
26 items found
$
$ typ sys$update:VMSINSTAL.HISTORY
...
...
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Product Information | Installation Information
------------------------------------|----------------------------------------
Name | Mnemonic | Ver | Date | Stat| IVP| Node | Install | VALSIGN
------------------------------------|----------------------------------------
| CC | 7.4| 12-MAR-2018 | S | NA | STUDNT | SYSTEM | VSI
| BASIC | 1.8| 12-MAR-2018 | S | NA | STUDNT | SYSTEM | VSI
| CXX | 7.4| 12-MAR-2018 | S | NA | STUDNT | SYSTEM | VSI
| DECSET | 12.9| 12-MAR-2018 | S | NA | STUDNT | SYSTEM | VSI
| PASCAL | 6.2| 12-MAR-2018 | F | NA | STUDNT | SYSTEM | VSI
$
$
$ show lic
Active licenses on node STUDNT:
------- Product ID -------- ---- Rating ----- -- Version --
Product Producer Units Avail Activ Version Release Termination
ALPHA-LP VSI 1050 H 0 0.0 (none) 30-SEP-2019
ALPHA-SYSTEM VSI 75 A 0 0.0 (none) 30-SEP-2019
$
Then I tried to setup the network interface. Followed the "Getting
Started" PDF manual (that is upacked into the install directory)
and used the "Virtual Alpha Configuration Utility".
Now, when trying to select a "network card" to pci11, I just get
"Invalid adapter: ask" besides of "Dummy network" as Interface
options.
And when trying to save a new CFG file, I got some error about
"invalid Windows filename" using the pre-configured default name.
I had to save using a new .CFG filename (using no spaces, but I do
not know for sure that that was the issue).
Then, the config is saved with no paths to the different files the
emulator uses, so it would not startup. I reconfigured using explicit
paths for all files (.NVM, .TOY, .IMG and so on) and then it started OK.
So, my remaining issue now is that I cannot select one of my laptop
network interfaces in my setup.
Next step would be to check my pile of unused laptops and try
one of those...
Jan-Erik.
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