[Info-vax] New VSI Community License Program for x86

[John H. Reinhardt]

I got the email this morning for the new CLP x86.  It had general instructions and then two links - one for a set of detailed instructions for using Oracle VirtualBox to create a VM and the link to a ZIP archive with the x86 vmdk files.  There are two separate files which make up the whole disk.  I up loaded them to my ESXi host system and created a VM with the same settings as my current OpenVMS x86 systems except the disk was pointed to the uploaded community.vmdk

At the BOOTMGR prompt just doing a "BOOT" command failed with

%VMS_BOOTMGR-E-COMMAND,  0x00 is not a suitable boot device.

So I did a "DEV" command to get the name of the OpenVMS boot disk and used that and it started right away

BOOTMGR> DEV

BOOTABLE DEVICES: B = BootMgr Device, V = Default VMS Boot Device

  B  DKA0        (HD) = FS0    UEFI: V9_2_2       VMS: V922         5120  MB  SCSI Disk

BOOTMGR> BOOT DKA0
Booting...

%%%%%%%%%%% VSI OpenVMS (tm) x86-64 %%%%%%%%%%%


_______________________________________________

       GRAPHICAL OUTPUT HAS BEEN SUSPENDED
       USE A TERMINAL UTILITY FOR ACCESS
_______________________________________________

VSI Primary Kernel SYSBOOT Nov  9 2023 12:17:04

%SYSBOOT-I-VMTYPE, Booting as a VMware (tm) Guest


         VMS Software, Inc. OpenVMS (TM) x86_64 Operating System, V9.2-2
                     Copyright 2023 VMS Software, Inc.

   MDS Mitigation active, variant verw(MD_CLEAR)
%DECnet-I-LOADED, network base image loaded, version = 05.92.05


I have not had much time to work with it but here are the products and the licenses installed

$ product show product *
------------------------------------ ----------- ---------
PRODUCT                              KIT TYPE    STATE
------------------------------------ ----------- ---------
VMSPORTS X86VMS PERL534 T5.34-0      Full LP     Installed
VSI X86VMS AVAIL_MAN_BASE V9.2-2     Full LP     Installed
VSI X86VMS C V7.5-9                  Full LP     Installed
VSI X86VMS CMS V4.8-9                Full LP     Installed
VSI X86VMS CXX V10.1-1               Full LP     Installed
VSI X86VMS DECNET_PLUS V9.2-E        Full LP     Installed
VSI X86VMS DECSET V13.0-1            Platform    Installed
VSI X86VMS DTM V4.5-6                Full LP     Installed
VSI X86VMS DWMOTIF V1.8              Full LP     Installed
VSI X86VMS DWMOTIF_SUPPORT V9.2-2    Full LP     Installed
VSI X86VMS ENVMGR V1.9-5             Full LP     Installed
VSI X86VMS FORTRAN V8.5-8            Full LP     Installed
VSI X86VMS KERBEROS V3.3-2A          Full LP     Installed
VSI X86VMS MMS V4.0-4                Full LP     Installed
VSI X86VMS OPENSSH V8.9-1G           Full LP     Installed
VSI X86VMS OPENVMS V9.2-2            Platform    Installed
VSI X86VMS SSL111 V1.1-1W            Full LP     Installed
VSI X86VMS SSL3 V3.0-11              Full LP     Installed
VSI X86VMS TCPIP V6.0-23             Full LP     Installed
VSI X86VMS VMS V9.2-2                Oper System Installed
------------------------------------ ----------- ---------
20 items found
$ show lice

Active licenses on node V922:

------- Product ID --------    ---- Rating ----- -- Version --
Product            Producer    Units PCL   Activ Version Release    Termination
BASIC              VSI             6  0     1      0.0  (none)      30-APR-2025
C                  VSI             6  0     1      0.0  (none)      30-APR-2025
CMS                VSI             6  1     0      0.0  (none)      30-APR-2025
COBOL              VSI             6  0     1      0.0  (none)      30-APR-2025
CXX-V              VSI             6  0     1      0.0  (none)      30-APR-2025
DTM                VSI             6  1     0      0.0  (none)      30-APR-2025
FORTRAN            VSI             6  0     1      0.0  (none)      30-APR-2025
LSE                VSI             6  1     0      0.0  (none)      30-APR-2025
MMS                VSI             6  1     0      0.0  (none)      30-APR-2025
OPENVMS-X86-HAOE   VSI             6  1     0      0.0  (none)      30-APR-2025
PASCAL             VSI             6  0     1      0.0  (none)      30-APR-2025
VMSCLUSTER         VSI             6  1     0      0.0  (none)      30-APR-2025
VMSCLUSTER-CLIENT  VSI             6  1     0      0.0  (none)      30-APR-2025
VOLSHAD            VSI             6  1     0      0.0  (none)      30-APR-2025
$


Note that DECnet-IV is not installed, only DECnet-PLUS.  Neither is BASIC, COBOL nor PASCAL for languages.  If you had the foresight to download the FT versions of those then you could install and run them.  Licenses for clustering and volume shadowing are supplied so you can still work with VMSclusters.


I have also done a LICENSE /ISSUE/PROCEDURE and copied the supplied licenses to my previous OpenVMS x86 systems

-- 
John H. Reinhardt