[FreeVMS] Problems running FreeVMS

[Roar Thronæs]

On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 12:08:25PM +0100, Zoltan Arpadffy wrote:
> I tried to use FreeVMS earlier but it failed with the pager.sys.
> I see that this bug is fixed in 2013 and I gave a new try.
> 
> Downloaded the git repository. Configured the kernel and built all without
> any problem.
> 
> The make image failed because it expected files from a different
> directories.
> 
> I wonder what I am doing wrong?
> 
> I am very curios to see FreeVMS in action. If anybody has a working image
> to share it would be also highly appreciated.

I am sorry, but the freevms.net page is referring to another type of
FreeVMS development that never had an operational system and is no longer
in development, as far as I know.

But there is a working FreeVMS with source at
https://github.com/rroart/freevms.

The current development is for getting Debian 8 support, in the guido branch.
(Many thanks to Guido for continuing the work.)

I am pasting from the newest working release:

There is a new release 0.3.17.                                                  
                                                                                
Disk images are available from:                                                 
                                                                                
http://www.pvv.org/~roart/a.img.gz (Boot floppy)                                
http://www.pvv.org/~roart/c.img.gz (Disk image, 64-bit)                         
http://www.pvv.org/~roart/c.img.32.gz (Disk image, 32-bit)                      
                                                                                
Typically run with                                                              
qemu-system-x86_64 -fda a.img -hda c.img -boot a -monitor stdio -net none       
                                                                                
For more about usage, see                                                       
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rroart/freevms/master/USE                     
                                                                                
and which user features are tested in                                           
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rroart/freevms/master/TESTING                 
                                                                                
News for 0.3.17:                                                                
Support for ODS-2 boot partition and use has been reenabled.                    
Support for CMUIP (TCP/IP) has been reenabled.                                  
Critical/major bugfixes.                                                        
Cleanup of dead/unused source code.                                             
                                                                                
See https://github.com/rroart/freevms for current source.                       
                                                                                
More info on http://www.pvv.org/~roart/freevms.html                             

-- 
-Roar

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