[Info-vax] New VSI Community License Program for x86
John H. Reinhardt
johnhreinhardt at thereinhardts.org
Mon Apr 1 18:34:53 EDT 2024
On 4/1/2024 4:24 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> 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?
>
Yes, they did. I hacked up the previous PAK command file for the new licenses and ran it. You can see there are 31 products NOT covered by the new PAKs. Some of them are covered by the HAOE license, I think. DVNETEXT was not included but , again, I think that's part of HAOE.
Active licenses on node SCALZI:
------- Product ID -------- ---- Rating ----- -- Version --
Product Producer Units PCL Activ Version Release Termination
ABS-CLIENT-X86 VSI 6 1 0 0.0 (none) 1-APR-2024
ABS-SERVER-X86 VSI 6 1 0 0.0 (none) 1-APR-2024
ACMS VSI 6 1 0 0.0 (none) 1-APR-2024
ACMS-REM VSI 6 1 0 0.0 (none) 1-APR-2024
ACMS-RT VSI 6 1 0 0.0 (none) 1-APR-2024
AVAIL-MAN VSI 6 1 0 0.0 (none) 1-APR-2024
BASIC VSI 6 0 1 0.0 (none) 30-APR-2025
C VSI 6 0 1 0.0 (none) 30-APR-2025
CARTRIDGE-SERVER-V VSI 6 1 0 0.0 (none) 1-APR-2024
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
DFG VSI 6 1 0 0.0 (none) 1-APR-2024
DFS VSI 6 1 0 0.0 (none) 1-APR-2024
DQS VSI 6 1 0 0.0 (none) 1-APR-2024
DTM VSI 6 1 0 0.0 (none) 30-APR-2025
DTR VSI 6 1 0 0.0 (none) 1-APR-2024
DVNETEXT VSI 6 1 0 0.0 (none) 1-APR-2024
FMS VSI 6 1 0 0.0 (none) 1-APR-2024
FMS-RT VSI 6 1 0 0.0 (none) 1-APR-2024
FORMS VSI 6 1 0 0.0 (none) 1-APR-2024
FORMS-RT VSI 6 1 0 0.0 (none) 1-APR-2024
FORTRAN VSI 6 0 1 0.0 (none) 30-APR-2025
GKS VSI 6 1 0 0.0 (none) 1-APR-2024
GKS-RT VSI 6 1 0 0.0 (none) 1-APR-2024
LSE VSI 6 1 0 0.0 (none) 30-APR-2025
MMS VSI 6 1 0 0.0 (none) 30-APR-2025
OMNI VSI 6 1 0 0.0 (none) 1-APR-2024
OPENVMS-X86-BOE VSI 6 1 0 0.0 (none) 1-APR-2024
OPENVMS-X86-HAOE VSI 6 1 0 0.0 (none) 30-APR-2025
OSAP VSI 6 1 0 0.0 (none) 1-APR-2024
PASCAL VSI 6 0 1 0.0 (none) 30-APR-2025
PCA VSI 6 1 0 0.0 (none) 1-APR-2024
RMSJNL VSI 6 1 0 0.0 (none) 1-APR-2024
RTR-CL VSI 6 1 0 0.0 (none) 1-APR-2024
RTR-SVR VSI 6 1 0 0.0 (none) 1-APR-2024
SAVE-SET-MANAGER VSI 6 1 0 0.0 (none) 1-APR-2024
SW-RAID5 VSI 6 1 0 0.0 (none) 1-APR-2024
TDMS VSI 6 1 0 0.0 (none) 1-APR-2024
TDMS-RT VSI 6 1 0 0.0 (none) 1-APR-2024
VAXSET VSI 6 1 0 0.0 (none) 1-APR-2024
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
X25 VSI 6 1 0 0.0 (none) 1-APR-2024
%SHOW-I-TERMIMM, 31 licenses have terminated or will terminate in 30 days
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John H. Reinhardt
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