[Info-vax] OpenVMS 6.2 on SimH hangs on boot

[Martin Vorländer]

Single Stage to Orbit <alex.buell at munted.eu> wrote:
> Years ago I got OpenVMS 6.2 up and running using SimH. 
> I have just tried to boot it up over the weekend to find some files
> that I need to get over to OpenVMS 9.2-1 on x86. 
>
> Unfortunately, it now hangs at this line:
> "%UCX-I-DEFINTE. Defining interfaces"
>
> I think this might be because licences have expired but I was given to
> understand that I still could login as SYSTEM even if the licences have
> expired?
>
> Any ideas how I can get past this so I can get at my files? I left it
> running overnight and it was still hanging. 

You could follow the VMS FAQ
https://www.digiater.nl/openvms/freeware/v70/vmsfaq/vmsfaq_007.html#mgmt5b
or, more directly,
https://www.digiater.nl/openvms/freeware/v70/vmsfaq/vmsfaq_007.html#mgmt5b

Have you tried to integrate the VAX disk into the x86 hypervisor directly?
After all, it's a VMS disk, so VMS x86 should be able to read it.

HTH,
Martin