FreeVMS New release 0.2.10

[mariuz]

New release 0.2.10 at
ftp.nvg.ntnu.no:/pub/vms/freevms (freevms-0_2_10.tgz and linker-0_2_6)

Disk images are named a.img.gz and c.img.gz.
The USE file or reference to it should accompany downloads.
(For x86_64 they are named a.img.x86_64.gz and c.img.x86_64.gz)
The README file should be read first.

News:
x86_64:
Better PAL.
PAL SMP support.
PAL support for 4 modes (but no CLI in supervisor).
All 4 modes used.
i386:
PAL support for 4 modes (with CLI in supervisor).
Only 3 modes used.

Bugs/features fixed:
x86_64:
Critical kernel stack overflow (PAL).
Killed off interrupt stack (PAL).
Misc other PAL fixes.
i386:
Killed off Linux semaphores here, too.
Linux spinlock semantics with pte alloc in syscredel.
Both:
Zero check for image routine start.

[mariuz]

The main project's page
http://www.systella.fr/~bertrand/FreeVMS/indexGB.html

Disk Images (mentioned in previous post) are created for bochs emulator
http://bochs.sourceforge.net/

a.img is to boot from floppy in bochs
c.img is disk image to boot from

Here is an older how i managed to boot it under bochs
http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=8769

[mariuz]

Another alternative to bochs is qemu
Download the images from above links

gunzip a.img.gz
gunzip c.img.gz

qemu -fda a.img -hda c.img -boot a -monitor stdio

Select the default grub option

You can read mor in the USE link (on the site)