[Info-vax] New guide for hobbyists, OpenVMS 8.4 installation with networking on AXPbox (modern fork of es40)

[Remy van Elst]

Op maandag 9 november 2020 om 12:08:24 UTC+1 schreef Jan-Erik Söderholm:
> Den 2020-11-09 kl. 12:02, skrev Remy van Elst: 
> > Op maandag 9 november 2020 om 12:00:36 UTC+1 schreef Jan-Erik Söderholm: 
> >> Den 2020-11-09 kl. 11:33, skrev Joukj: 
> >>> Remy wrote: 
> >>>> Back in 2018 I was trying to run OpenVMS inside es40, but that 
> >>>> was quite unstable. Now Tomáš Glozar has forked es40 to axpbox 
> >>>> and notified me about it, it installs OpenVMS without crashing. I wrote a 
> >>>> bit on axpbox here: 
> >>>> 
> >>>> https://raymii.org/s/blog/Exciting_OpenVMS_Alpha_emulation_news_es40_has_been_forked_to_axpbox.html 
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> I made a few contributions to the codebase, a few other patches floating 
> >>>> around es40 forks, for example to make netbsd boot, and wrote some wiki 
> >>>> pages on network setup. 
> >>>> For anyone that wants to give OpenVMS 8.4 on Alpha a spin, now that 
> >>>> VSI has a hobbyist program, here's my guide how to do that: 
> >>>> 
> >>>> https://raymii.org/s/tutorials/Installing_OpenVMS_8.4_Alpha_in_AXPbox_with_networking.html 
> >>>> 
> >>> 
> >>> Thanks very much for writing the tutorials, they were very helpfull. 
> >>> BTW form the examples/screenshots given, may I assume that you are also 
> >>> located in the Netherlansds?) 
> >>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> One advantage of this is that you are not limited by the resource quotas 
> >>>> in FreeAXP and can run multiple instances on one computer, so a cluster 
> >>>> should technically be possible. 
> >>> 
> >>> And that it runs on Linux and not on Windhoos. 
> >> So this "axpbox" not run on Windows? That is a direct show stopper... 
> > 
> > It runs on Windows, Mac OS and linux (anywhere you have a reasonable C++ 11 compiler, GCC, Clang or MSVC)
> OK, fine! But you have to build/link it locally on your own Windows system?

Yes. I'll add an issue to add a pre-built release for downloading, that's a good idea.

Building isn't that much work, install the free version of visual studio, enter the github url, click build. that should be it.
Same on linux, install development packages, checkout repository, run cmake to build.