[FreeVMS] Problems running FreeVMS

[Guido]

Hi Zoltan,

Thanks for your interest in FreeVMS!

As Roar mentioned I try to continue the FreeVMS 0.3.x branch. It is 
based on a rather old, no longer maintained Linux 2.4 kernel and a lot 
of VMS related code and documentation coming from various sources on the 
internet. Most of my work so far has been to improve maintainability of 
the code base: recent Debian build host, less compiler warnings, more 
consistent type definitions and coding style, removal of unused code, a 
simple automated test framework, etc. I use Bugzilla from freevms.net in 
an effort to maintain a list of tasks that I try to work on. It may not 
be complete, but can be found here: https://www.systella.fr/bugzilla3/

I hope you are still willing to contribute. All help is welcome!

Regards,
Guido


On 12/06/2015 10:04 PM, Zoltan Arpadffy wrote:
> Hi Roar,
>
> thank you for the information and the links.
> I was able to come to the DCL prompt for the very first time on FreeVMS.
> This is a great success.
> ...but a hedonistic lifestyle learned me to be greedy.
>
> I wonder is there any C compiler that would work within the FreeVMS?
> Is it possible to build software for FreeVMS?
> What about the network support?
>
> Please understand - I am not demanding. I am just a VMS freak who 
> would like to contribute.
>
> Thank you.
> Regards,
> Z
>
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 7:19 PM, Roar Thronæs <roart at nvg.ntnu.no 
> <mailto:roart at nvg.ntnu.no>> wrote:
>
>     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 <http://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
>     <http://www.pvv.org/%7Eroart/a.img.gz> (Boot floppy)
>     http://www.pvv.org/~roart/c.img.gz
>     <http://www.pvv.org/%7Eroart/c.img.gz> (Disk image, 64-bit)
>     http://www.pvv.org/~roart/c.img.32.gz
>     <http://www.pvv.org/%7Eroart/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
>     <http://www.pvv.org/%7Eroart/freevms.html>
>
>     --
>     -Roar
>
>     (The first attempt at mailing did not get through, so am retrying.)
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