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

[Kevin Monceaux]

On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 05:51:55AM -0800, Remy via Info-vax 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. 

This is good news.  But it might be better to say it installs OpenVMS
without crashing, eventually.  I finally got through a successful install
today.  I lost track of the number of tries it took.  I kept encountering
access violations or IDE failures, issue #8.  With the successful install I
installed from SCSI CD-ROM to IDE DASD.

Is there a users' mailing list for the emulator?

How does one change the ISO image an emulated CD-ROM drive is pointed to
while the emulator is running?

Is there any way to enable idle loop detection so the emulator doesn't keep
a CPU core pegged out the whole time it's running?



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Kevin
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