[FreeVMS] Hi!

BERTRAND Joel joel.bertrand at systella.fr
Sun Jul 17 17:02:14 CEST 2011


BERTRAND Joel a écrit :
> 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.

	Oops, sorry, 0.3.14 and 0.3.15 are only source tarballs...

	JKB


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