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

[Dave Froble]

On 4/1/2024 4:32 PM, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
> 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
>

You must have been reading my mind.  That was the first thing I thought of.  So, 
did the issued licenses work on the previous VMS installation?

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