On 2015-10-25 23:19:16 +0000, Bill Cunningham said:
> Here's the thing. I'm running linux and was going to use simh for this.
> An emulator.
Okay.
> I don't know how to get a hold of HP for a hobbyist license for open vms.
Go here and register
http://plato.ccsscorp.com/hobbyist_registration.php
Licenses will be emailed to you. Usually within a day or so.
If you need a license membership number, then get yourself a free login
on the decuserve server — telnet to
decuserve.org — if this follows the
usual course here, you'll try ssh and not telnet and hopefully that'll
work, but when it doesn't, please try telnet for the sign-up — and then
type the command "hobbyist" at the DCL prompt. That command will give
you your membership information for the HP/HPE OpenVMS hobbyist license
sign-up.
> I've tried.
Any URLs or errors or other details of the issues? Hard to
troubleshoot this stuff without that, after all...
> Do they send a cd or dvd or what?
You will want to ask for a download when you get the licenses. If the
credentials for the downloads are not already provided, which I'd
expect.
You'll get a disk image that you can then burn and boot on a "real"
system, or can transfer that image to a file using dd or analogous and
connect simh to that as a device.
When you get to simh, you can configure a device that's pointing to a
file containing the contents of the disk image
<
http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/922>. Use RAUSER for all of your
simh device types, too, as those can float in size; they're not fixed
to the actual size of the RA device being emulated.
License management facility (LMF) product authorization key (PAK)
registration sequence and background:
<
http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/31>
<
http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/259>
> I have some really old vms v 4-v6 tapes too. Ok here's what the file is called,
>
> openvms_i64_8_4_08250607.zip
>
> There's three files inside with .zipexe files. Hum. Do I need to
> already have vms to do this?
Based on the filename, that's probably either an OpenVMS I64 kit for
Itanium, or it could well be malware pretending to be the Itanium kit.
The self-extracting code pasted onto the front of that file is probably
Itanium code.
I'd hope that unzip will be able to unzip the file anyway —
disregarding the prefixed self-extracting executable — but you won't be
able to use the kit, so there's not much reason to try that.
Why? In either case, it's very likely not the VAX kit. You need the
VAX kit when you're using simh.
Release info: The last OpenVMS VAX version is V7.3. Which is from
2001; it's rather old. OpenVMS V8.4 is much more current. The most
current is V8.4-1H1, and that's only available for Itanium, and it's
provided by VSI and not by HP/HPE.