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

[Tomáš Glozar]

> This may be a silly question, but does the Linux host in this 
> picture have to be Linux AMD64/x86? (Don't quite see why, but...). 
> 
> And if a competent ARM Linux will do, has anybody thought about (or 
> succeeded with) doing this on the latest Raspberry-Pi-in-a-Keyboard, 
> either with Raspberry Pi OS or some other ARM-flavoured Linux? 
> 
> $70/£70 for the base model with 4GB memory and ~2GHz quad core ARM 
> processor, just add HDMI monitor and sundries. See e.g. 
> https://www.wired.co.uk/article/raspberry-pi-400-review 
> Probably not enterprise-c;ass stability yet, but for £70... 
> 

I have a Raspberry Pi 4 and can confirm es40 works on it (at least on a 64-bit OS; I had some problems at a 32-bit PowerPC system, but that could be because of big endian), so AXPbox on 400 should work, too (currently I don't have it up and running, but I'll try it once I get to it). The performance isn't perfect, but it's bearable.

Also RPi 4 and 400 both support KVM/libvirt (they have the same CPU), so you can replicate the network setup in Remy's guide with libvirt instead of VirtualBox if networking doesn't work directly on the host system.