[Info-vax] OpenVMS x86 on VMWare Fusion

[Craig A. Berry]

On 6/23/23 2:38 PM, Bob Wilson wrote:
> I've been using VMware Fusion for a while and don't remember having
> much trouble setting it up. I'm using SATA disks, which is different
> than what you're doing.

I'm using SATA disks too, which I believe is the only thing that works
with x86 VMS at the moment.  But until I told it scsi0:0 was not
present, it had hiccups.  Not sure why.
> Except for adding the serial line items in the .vmx file (with an
> editor) I don't recall having to do very much that I couldn't do in
> the GUI to setup the VM and the attached storage.

It isn't very much.  But it took me a while to figure out the magic
incantations.  I had no prior experience with any VMWare product.

> I was using the free ("player") license for a while until I got a
> "real" license provided by my management.
> 
> The one thing that you don't get with the free license is network
> connectivity, which wan't too much of a problem for me (anything that
> I needed to get to/from the Fusion VM I "sneakernet'd" with a .vmdk
> that was "shared" with a VirtualBox VM)
The network with the free version seems to be working fine after adding:

ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"

to the config.  I have autodetect bridged selected in the GUI for how to
handle interaction with the host's ethernet adapter.