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

[Remy]

Op vrijdag 13 november 2020 om 22:02:09 UTC+1 schreef Wilm Boerhout:
> Remy schreef op 9-11-2020 om 14:51: 
> 
> [snip]
> > git clone https://github.com/lenticularis39/axpbox/ 
> > 
> > cd axpbox 
> > 
> > mkdir build 
> > 
> > cd build 
> > 
> > cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE="Release" && make -j4 
> > 
> > 
> > I'm unsure how the performance is, I have no openvms installation ready, but at least it compiles. Raspberry pi should not be much different if you can get Debian or Ubuntu (Raspbian) running. 
> >
> It compiled fine and the configure part ran nicely on my Raspberry Pi 4 
> with Raspbian and 8GB of memory. I am now going to read the docs :-) and 
> see where I can get the necessary ROM files. 
> 
> Question: is libpcap really necessary or can the NIC just be on a host 
> tap device like all my simh VAX emulators? 
> 


Yes you really need pcap. I'n working on precompiled binaries on the github page, and there is an enhancement issue to develop tap / vde Support. But for now you have to compile yourself with tap

> /Wilm