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

[John E. Malmberg]

On 11/9/2020 9:14 AM, Tomáš Glozar wrote:
>> 
> 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.

Actually libvirt-LXC would work better than KVM/Libvirt, but the current 
distro packages are totally broken if the application requires 
privileges for network access like sim-h does.

It works great on Ubuntu 14.04 for running SimH emulators.

If it would work on newer systems it libvirt-LXC has significant disk 
space savings over docker or kvm based virtualization if you just need 
to make a single program look like a standalone system.

Also much easier to setup and manage.

Regards,
-John
wb8tyw at qsl.net_work