[FreeVMS] Hi!

BERTRAND Joel joel.bertrand at systella.fr
Sun Jul 17 17:00:29 CEST 2011


Roar Thronæs a écrit :
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 05:04:20PM +0200, BERTRAND Joel wrote:
>>>
>>> Anyway - I have  qemu-system-x86_64 installed on ubuntu (which is
>>> running in VMware under Window 7)
>>>
>>> The qemu boots and displays the grub boot selection screen. I choose
>>> FreeVMS and booting starts - it gets to where it says it is launching
>>> the kernel, but then all it does is flash random characters in the
>>> upper right corner of the screen..
>>
>> 	I suppose you have downloaded FreeVMS 0.4. 0.4 is in very early
>> development stage (and I don't have time enough to continue alone).
>> Random characters only show that L4 microkernel is running. I use this
>> functionality because 0.4 kernel uses 64-bits pointers (by default gcc
>> only use 4G pointers, 2G for system and 2G for user) and kernel can hang
>> without any message.
>
> Maybe the 0.3 disk images should be made available until 0.4 is ready?
> As of today, the non-working 0.4 just makes the project look bad.

	On the first page (www.freevms.net), you have several links, in 
particular FreeVMS 0.3.14, 0.3.15 and 0.4 from CVS tree.

	Regards,

	JKB


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