[Simh] telnet sim> console / remote controlling the sim via python
Hi, I have a vague recollection of seeing and/or using this feature, but it might have been an independent mod, but is there facility to access the sim> console via telnet? Everything else is telnet-able, it would make sense. I would like to control the simulator via a python library and the simplest answer seemed, initially, to be telnet, unless someone else has a better bright idea for it? Thanks, -- Mark @ DECtec.info twitter.com/DECtecInfo ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
Re: [Simh] VDE Networking not working for me?
NETWORK CONFIG: === # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8) auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet manual auto vmstap0 iface vmstap0 inet manual vde2-switch -t vmstap0 -s /tmp/vde.ctl \ -M /tmp/vde.mgmt -m 666 --mgmtmode 666 auto br0 iface br0 inet static address 192.168.1.20 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.1.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 gateway 192.168.1.254 bridge_ports eth0 vmstap0 dns-search home dns-nameservers 192.168.1.254 8.8.8.8 #auto wlan0 #iface wlan0 inet static #auto wlan1 #iface wlan1 inet static SIMH CONFIG: #STAR69 DECnet Area Router OpenVMS 7.3 #Configuration File #Mark Benson 2015/08/30 #Attach NVRAM storage ATTACH NVR 3900.nvram #Disable Unused Hardware #SET TR DISABLED SET LPT DISABLED SET RL DISABLED SET TS DISABLED SET TQ DISABLED #Attach Ethernet to VDE Switch #ATTACH XQ vde:/tmp/vde.ctl #Attach Ethernet to eth0 (libpcap) ATTACH XQ eth0 #Set & Attach Storage Devices SET RQ0 RA92 ATTACH RQ0 STAR69SYS.dsk SET RQ1 RA92 ATTACH RQ1 STAR69DATA.dsk #Disable other disks on RQ SET RQ2 DISABLED SET RQ3 DISABLED #Enable and Set CD-ROM (RQB0) SET RQB KRQ50 SET RQB ENABLED SET RQB0 RRD40 #Attach OpenVMS 7.3 Install Media ATTACH RQB0 OpenVMS7.3VAX.iso #Disable other disks on RQB SET RQB1 DISABLED SET RQB2 DISABLED SET RQB3 DISABLED #Setup DZV11 Terminal Multiplexer SET DZ LINES=4 #Attach on Telnet Port 3901 ATTACH DZ 3901 #Setup Console Telnet Port & Buffering SET CONSOLE TELNET=3900 SET CONSOLE TELNET=BUFFERED SET CONSOLE LOG=STAR69_CONSOLE.log #ISSUE BOOT COMMAND!! #BOOT # VDE Management Ouput: = mark@atomica:~/simh$ unixterm /tmp/vde.mgmt VDE switch V.2.3.2 (C) Virtual Square Team (coord. R. Davoli) 2005,2006,2007 - GPLv2 vde$ port/allprint DATA END WITH '.' Port 0001 untagged_vlan= ACTIVE - Unnamed Allocatable Current User: NONE Access Control: (User: NONE - Group: NONE) IN: pkts 9659 bytes 1044095 OUT: pkts106 bytes13212 -- endpoint ID 0007 module tuntap : vmstap0 Port 0002 untagged_vlan= ACTIVE - Unnamed Allocatable Current User: mark Access Control: (User: NONE - Group: NONE) IN: pkts112 bytes13572 OUT: pkts639 bytes52448 -- endpoint ID 0003 module unix prog : simh user=mark PID=7973 SSH=192.168.1.101 . 1000 Success -- Mark @ DECtec.info twitter.com/DECtecInfo ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
[Simh] VDE Networking not working for me?
Hi, I have a microvax3900 instance running on an Intel Atom PC box in Xubuntu 14.04 and I don't seem to have connectivity with VDE networking. Traditional libpcap method works just fine. I don't have any other way to test VDE to see if it's my VDE config or SimH that's broken, any suggestions? -- Mark @ DECtec.info twitter.com/DECtecInfo ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
[Simh] Latest Sources?
Hi, Long time no comms. I've recently moved out to my own place and I'm rebuilding my DEC network from the ground up. I've been out of the loop with SimH for a good while. Where is the best place to get the latest development sources from? Still github simh/master? Thanks, -- Mark @ DECtec.info twitter.com/DECtecInfo ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
[Simh] Control SimH totally remotely
Ministry of stupid questions asks: I was wondering if, with the new REMOTE SCP input feature, it is possible to boot SimH headless and control it entirely from the REMOTE telnet SCP console. -- Mark Benson http://DECtec.info Twitter: @DECtecInfo HECnet: STAR69::MARK Online Resource & Mailing List for DEC Enthusiasts. ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
[Simh] Semi OT: Using VDE for Networking
Banging my head on the desk here... I'm attempting to use VDE under Debian linux to virtualise my network interface for SimH and I'm getting confused. Starting vde_switch using: vde_switch -t tap0 -s /tmp/vde.ctl -m 666 --mgmt /tmp/vde.mgmt --mgmtmode 666 --daemon then telling SimH: attach xq vde:/tmp/vde.ctl This works fine, and as such SimH itself is all fine and good as far as I can see. What I can't grok however is if it's possible to start a vde_switch at boot time, and if you can where the switch uses as it's switch and management locations? Nothing I've looked at in hours of Googling has ben at all helpful. One suggestion said adding tap0 to /etc/network/interfaces would start it at boot, it doesn't, it fails really badly on Ubuntu 14.04 and doesn't work in a less dramatic but still unsatisfactory manner on Debian wheezy. Is anyone using vde under linux and can you help me? -- Mark Benson http://DECtec.info Twitter: @DECtecInfo HECnet: STAR69::MARK Online Resource & Mailing List for DEC Enthusiasts. ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
[Simh] Compile Targets List?
Hi, I can't find a list of compile targets for SimH (current master 4.0.0 Beta). Is it published anywhere? Am I missing something obvious? -- Mark Benson http://DECtec.info Twitter: @DECtecInfo HECnet: STAR69::MARK Online Resource & Mailing List for DEC Enthusiasts. ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
Re: [Simh] 4.0.0 Beta socket problem on RaspberryPi/raspbian
On 23 Apr 2013, at 00:55, Timothe Litt wrote: > FWIW, errno 97 would be address family not supported. (It would be nice if > strerror() (or the thread-safe strerror_r() if available) was called instead > of just printing the decimal error number.) > > You didn't say which OS you're running on your RPi. The default is debian. Check the e-mail title :) > You probably have an IPv6 configuration issue; the new simh code tries to use > it if it thinks its available. From a quick look at the code, you may want > to replace the 13900 port number with your ip (v4 1.2.3.4:13900 or v6 > [2001:db8::123]:13900). Thanks, that fixed it. I'll pursue fixing that or disabling IPv6, as the unit is on DHCP so doesn't have a fixed IP, thus this needs to work without using the IP address. > But I'll leave further diagnosis to Mark, who checked-in the changes to > support IPv6. He'll probably need the commands that you used to build simh. No need, I think the issue is external to simh. -- Mark Benson http://DECtec.info Twitter: @DECtecInfo HECnet: STAR69::MARK Online Resource & Mailing List for DEC Enthusiasts. ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
[Simh] 4.0.0 Beta socket problem on RaspberryPi/raspbian
Hi, I have been trying to upgrade my RaspberryPi dedicated machine with the 4.0.0 beta of simh (because it does buffered TELNET and is thus way more useful as a persistent background process) but I hit a snag: OUTPUT: MicroVAX 3900 simulator V4.0-0 Betagit commit id: ba09b2d3 Logging to file "/var/log/vax/star69.log" Sockets: socket error 97 /etc/vax/config_daemon.ini-2> set CONSOLE TELNET=13900 File open error /etc/vax/config_daemon.ini-30> set RY disabled Non-existent device Sockets: socket error 97 /etc/vax/config_daemon.ini-43> attach -am DZ 3900 File open error NVR: buffering file in memory libpcap version 1.3.0 Eth: opened OS device eth0 KA655-B V5.3, VMB 2.7 (etc...) === It appears simh is struggling to attach to a telnet port? 3.9.0 worked just dandy. CONFIG.INI: set CONSOLE LOG=/var/log/vax/star69.log set CONSOLE TELNET=13900 ; Buffering for TELNET ; set console TELNET=BUFFERED=65536 ; set CONSOLE SERIAL=/dev/ttyAMA0 set CPU 64M set cpu idle=VMS set CPU CONHALT set CR disabled set DZ lines=8 set LPT disabled set RL disabled set RQ0 RA90 set RQ1 RA90 ;set RQ2 RA90 set RQ2 disabled ;set RQ3 RA90 set RQ3 disabled ;set RQB enabled ;set RQB0 RA90 ;set RQB1 RA90 ;set RQB2 RA90 ;set RQB3 RA90 set RQC enabled set RQC0 RRD40 ;set RQC1 RRD40 set RQC1 disabled set RQC2 disabled set RQC3 disabled set RY disabled set TQ disabled set TQ enabled set TQ TK70 ;set TQ0 format=TPC set TQ1 disabled ;set TQ0 format=TPC set TQ1 disabled set TQ2 disabled set TQ3 disabled set TS disabled set XQ MAC=AA:00:00:00:19:42 ;set XQB enabled ;set XQB MAC=AA:00:00:02:30:42 ; attach -am DZ 3900 ; attach NVR /usr/local/vax/nvram.bin ;attach dz line=2,connect=ser0 ; ; KDA50 #1 ; attach RQ0 /usr/local/vax/disk/VAXVMS.SYSTEM.DSK attach RQ1 /usr/local/vax/disk/VAXVMS.DATA01.DSK ; ; RRD50 ; attach RQC0 /usr/local/vax/cdrom/OpenVMS7.3VAX.iso ;attach RQC1 /data/disks/?.DSK ; ;attach TQ0 /usr/local/vax/tape/SYSTEM.BCK ; ; load -r /usr/local/vax/ka655x.bin ; attach XQ eth0 ; deposit BDR 0 ; boot CPU ; exit === -- Mark Benson My Blog: <http://markbenson.org/blog> Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/mdbenson "Never send a human to do a machine's job..." ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
Re: [Simh] Slightly OT: Headless SIMH on Raspberry Pi
On 3 Nov 2012, at 22:41, David Brownlee wrote: > On 3 November 2012 22:15, Rob Jarratt wrote: >> I want to run SIMH on my headless Raspberry Pi, to do so I use putty to >> connect to the pi and log in. From the shell I can run SIMH just fine. What >> I would like though is for my session not to disappear if I close putty and >> to be able to reconnect to the session at some later time, with SIMH still >> running. I am not really a Unix expert, is there a way to do this? > > "screen" http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ or "tmux" > http://tmux.sourceforge.net/ are two very useful tools for just this > :) I use gnu 'screen' extensively on my Rasbperry Pi VAX setups to do just that. Works a charm, and you can detach the session at any time and it will keep buffering. Right now I recommend this as the best way to run SimH headless and without a need for a perpetual terminal. I'm hoping something better might come along that doesn't require additional software, though. -- Mark Benson http://DECtec.info Twitter: @DECtecInfo HECnet: STAR69::MARK Online Resource & Mailing List for DEC Enthusiasts. ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
[Simh] Paging: Mark Pizzolato
Hi, Anyone got an alternate e-mail for him? His infocomm email address is offline it seems. -- Mark Benson http://DECtec.info Twitter: @DECtecInfo HECnet: STAR69::MARK Online Resource & Mailing List for DEC Enthusiasts. ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
[Simh] VAX 3900: Possible Networking Bug triggered by Clustering in VMS 7.3
Hi, Had a really interesting night playing with my new SimH VAX cluster. I have tripped over what may be a bug in the networking in SimH... or may not. I don't know enough to make out exactly what it is that broke. Host environment: NetBSD 5.1.2 amd64 libpcap-1.1.1 compiled from pkgsrc The system is running dual NICs and an ipnat/ipfilter gateway, if that matters at all. The symptoms: Initially, enabling the disk shadowing server (added 'SHADOWING=2' to MODPARAMS.DAT and AUTOGEN'd) caused the following: - Cluster communications between nodes stopped working almost completely. - starting DECnet via @STARTNET crashed the whole VAX and caused it to crashdump and reboot (see http://dectec.info/DECnet_crash_dump.txt) I initially thought the trigger was the Shadowing and turned it off. I have subsequently discovered that the issue persists even after the shadow server is disabled (commneted out line in MODPARAMS.DAT and AUTOGEN'd). Cluster communications remain spotty and (work on some boots and not others) and DECnet still crashes. I have another node (RaspberryPi) running a Debian Linux derivative. It is running a similarly hand compiled SimH vax binary albeit with a different version of libpcap (I can't tell what exact version but I think it's 1.3.0 ish). It exhibits non of the described issues. So something specific to my NetBSD machine is causing the crash/network issue. That's all I got. I'll gladly test/verify any other details if required. -- Mark Benson http://DECtec.info Twitter: @DECtecInfo HECnet: STAR69::MARK Online Resource & Mailing List for DEC Enthusiasts. ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
[Simh] NetBSD amd64 Idle Support?
NetBSD 5.1.2 amd64 compiled SimH VAX from source using pkgsrc compilers and gmake compiled from pkgsrc. set cpu idle or set cpu idle=vms both return "Command not allowed" Is this expected? -- Mark Benson http://markbenson.org/blog http://twitter.com/MDBenson ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
Re: [Simh] PDP-wiki
On 9 Jul 2012, at 16:13, Richard wrote: > It's not always that way. > > Paul Williams entered all the data on the original Manx; I've been > enhancing the system to provide a web UI for entering more data. > > I entered 99.99% of all the data on the terminals wiki, as well as > creating all the wiki templates used and so-on. We appreciate every byte of it too. Both are excellent resources. I'd never think to try and duplicate your efforts either, If I wanted to help people understand Terminals or find manuals and docs I'd rather lunk to your work. >> [...] The contents is the hard part. Setting up a >> wiki or similar itself is the easy thing. > > Indeed. I find it interesting that this DECtec wiki thing has existed > for 9 months, but as far as I know, noone has ever talked about it > here or on cctalk Until 4 hours ago no-one except me knew it existed. I was waiting for the moment ;) -- Mark Benson http://markbenson.org/blog http://twitter.com/MDBenson ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
Re: [Simh] PDP-wiki
On 9 Jul 2012, at 15:44, Johnny Billquist wrote: > > Everybody wants to put up cool sites with information, but everybody expects > someone else to actually contribute the content... > It's what I'm good at, I even get paid to do it! ;) > Sorry, not personally against you Mark. Absolutely no offense taken, I kind of agree. That's why I spent a bit of time on DECtec trying to make it look the part and feel like it was intended for DEC enthusiasts. > It's just that I think there are too many of the "I've set up a site, please > someone else fill it with all the good stuff that everybody wants to see". > I personally don't see a great need in such sites, and I seldom, if ever, > contribute to them. The contents is the hard part. Setting up a wiki or > similar itself is the easy thing. While setting up Wordpress and Mediawiki doesn't take much, I went to a lot of effort to go the 'extra mile' with DECtec's wiki, far more than the usual 'change default logo' that most people do. Also you forget with all these places *someone* has to pay the bills. In my case I went to an effort to select the domain and setup the site and I pay (admittedly not much) for the hosting. > That said, all the power to you all. In case one of you actually manage to > create a site where all the useful information does exist, it would be a very > nice resource to have. See my problem is my knowledge is cert slim on most DEC topics so I figured I'd try to engage the community in dialog and information sharing instead... but I'm not very good at bouying people up to do it. As someone who is learning (from some great people) all about this little corner if the computing world I find the information really widely dispersed, hard to pinpoint, sometimes difficult to decipher and occasionally the knowledge, especially of old machines, is locked in the head of someone and just isn't out there anywhere. A community effort to centralise the information would be very helpful and make introducing new enthusiasts to the community (another thing I found hard work to start with) a good deal easier. > (If nothing else, I'll eventually create something running under RSX, just to > test the concept, and I like hacking in RSX, and it would also be poetical > justice for a PDP-11 to host the information... :-) However, it might just > not get any information either... :-) ) I explored the possibility of using Notes or WASD under VMS in a similar way but eventually concluded self-hosting it for me is a no-go because I have such abysmal internet and I haven't got a DS10L up my sleeve I could co-locate nor could I afford to do for just one site. -- Mark Benson http://markbenson.org/blog http://twitter.com/MDBenson ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
Re: [Simh] PDP-wiki (was: smallest pdp-11 that can run TECO and sockets(*)?)
>> I don't know why someone hasn't setup a vintage computing (or maybe >> just DEC) wiki to assemble all the info into one place like I did for >> the terminals wiki (see signature below). > > OK, quickly started one at http://pdp-11.ls-al.eu > Contact me offlist for any questions or other inquiries. > I could _really_ use some help in filling it with content, people! I am sorry to sound like I'm competing but I have DEC wiki at: http://wiki.dectec.info Needs content adding, I set it up just for this purpose about 9 months ago. Have at it! :) -- Mark Benson http://markbenson.org/blog http://twitter.com/MDBenson ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
Re: [Simh] Serial Console
Woah, hold up a moment. Forgive me if technical ignorance (of which I've got plenty) prevents me from understanding, but right now the DZV11 emulation provides a shim into the emulated hardware to provide telnet access and enough to convince the emulation it's a DZV11 and that works fine. My suggestion merely involved swapping (or appending) telnet access for a serial port access. Surely this can be done while ignoring the actual hardware functions of a real DZV11? Just use the SimH console to set the port and baud rate and pass that to the emulation the same way as the telnet is handled outside of the actual simulation. At some point you must have raw data coming from the simulation that is spat out from the emulated DZV11. In effect where the data exits the simulation put a fork in the road and offer to push it to serial or telnet. As I understand it, this would allow it to be setup and handled outside the constraints of the original DZV11 implementation in a controlled and easily implemented fashion with certain assumptions or fixed options offered for the serial interface. Right? -- Mark Benson http://markbenson.org/blog http://twitter.com/MDBenson ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
Re: [Simh] Serial Console
On 3 Jul 2012, at 12:03, Johnny Billquist wrote: > On 2012-07-03 11:49, Mark Benson wrote: >> Simple question: Can SimH's CONSOLE output be directed to a Serial port >> (i.e. via /dev/ttyS0)? >> >> If so how does it handle waiting for a terminal connection? >> >> If not, is there a reason why? > > I think I looked into this a few years ago, and found that it can't. There is > no absolute reason why it would not be able to, but exactly how you control a > physical serial port differs between OSes, so I suspect it would be hard to > write generic. Ah, that makes sense, yes, different OSs use different device names etc. even within common UNIX methods. This wouldn't be such a big hurdle if the onus was on the user to provide the full device path though. That, of course, doesn't help with Windows or VMS but it might widen it's UNIX campatibility? > However, I think that under Unix, if you just log in on a serial port and > start simh, you'd be more or less there already? No, you see what I would like to do is connect a VT terminal directly to SimH to use either as the OP console or to provide a real VT access for the DZV11 emulation. This is all about cutting out multiple layers if terminal emulation to get real VT interaction direct to the emulator. The reason is I have noticed that over Telnet VMS is pretty robust but only offers a 'cut down' cinnection to remain compatible. Conversely, GNU screen working directly as the console convinces VMS that it's a real VT then it pukes when you run something like EVE or TCPIP$CONFIG.COM because VMS is assuming the terminal can handle features that screen cannot. There are also other things like softloaded fonts etc that only real VT terminals handle properly that break ir don't work in screen or telnet. It'd be nice to hook the VT510 up and use that instead... wasjyst a thought. -- Mark Benson http://markbenson.org/blog http://twitter.com/MDBenson ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
[Simh] Serial Console
Simple question: Can SimH's CONSOLE output be directed to a Serial port (i.e. via /dev/ttyS0)? If so how does it handle waiting for a terminal connection? If not, is there a reason why? -- Mark Benson http://markbenson.org/blog http://twitter.com/MDBenson ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
Re: [Simh] smallest pdp-11 that can run TECO and sockets(*)?
On 29 Jun 2012, at 01:36, Richard wrote: > > In article , >Lawrence Stewart writes: > >> If you just want to do file transfer, [...] > > Nope. File transfer is not the goal; web server implemented in a TECO > macro is the goal. > > (I told you it was a crazy experiment!) I don't know if it's at all relevant but Johnny Billquist is working on a Web Server implementation for RSX-11in the standard DEC BASIC for that machine. It includes a TCP/IP stack in with it (as RSX-11M doesn't have on as standard) which could easily be leveraged for other things. Just a thought :) -- Mark Benson http://DECtec.info Twitter: @DECtecInfo HECnet: STAR69::MARK Online Resource & Mailing List for DEC Enthusiasts. ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
[Simh] SIMH as a Service (revisited)
Holy thread necromancy! I only just started work on this, I'm sorry it's taken
9 months! :)
Here is what my /etc/init.d/simh file looks like.
#!/bin/sh
# Start/stop the VAX virtual guest
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: simh
# Required-Start:networking
# Required-Stop:
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 1
# Short-Description: Virtual VAX (SIMH)
# Description: VAX is a virtual computer system running under a VAX
#emulator that is part of SIMH. This VAX host runs OpenVMS.
### END INIT INFO
NAME=simh
DAEMON=/usr/local/bin/start-vax-bg
PIDFILE=/var/run/simh.pid
test -f $DAEMON || exit 5
test -f $CONFIG || exit 5
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
case "$1" in
start) log_daemon_msg "Starting VAX emulator" $NAME
start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile $PIDFILE --name $NAME --exec $DAEMON
log_end_msg $?
;;
stop) log_daemon_msg "Stopping VAX emulator" "vax"
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --name vax
log_end_msg $?
;;
status)
status_of_proc -p $PIDFILE /usr/local/vax/vax vax && exit 0 || exit $?
;;
*) log_action_msg "Usage: /etc/init.d/simh {start|stop|status}"
exit 2
;;
esac
exit 0
So far I have managed to get it to start using 'simh start' and I can resume
the screen session just fine. However, it's not creating a 'pid' file in
/var/run so any attempts to stop it or check it's status ing that script fail.
I have a theory that it's because the script is spawning 2 processes;
1076 ?Ss 0:00 SCREEN -d -m -h 1 /usr/local/vax/vax
/etc/vax/config.ini
1079 pts/2Ssl+ 0:00 /usr/local/vax/vax /etc/vax/config.ini
which are confusing the matter because the PID file only usually contains one
process ID AFAIK.
Anyone got any feedback on this?
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Re: [Simh] Simulated PDP-11 Blinkenlight front panel for SimH
On 31 May 2012, at 14:52, "dott.Piergiorgio d' Errico" wrote: > only my personal opinion; , even browsers, office suites and flight > simulators ought to be coded in 100% hand-optimized assembly I think I see a conceptual problem here too, it's called: > I reckon that in my ideal world Yes, in everyone's ideal world we'd fully optimize everything for every platform 100% using the best language possible. Meanwhile back in realty we have deadlines to keep and software to ship. -- Mark Benson http://markbenson.org/blog http://twitter.com/MDBenson ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
Re: [Simh] Simulated PDP-11 Blinkenlight front panel for SimH
On 31 May 2012, at 14:28, "Jörg Hoppe" wrote: > A few weeks ago I presented "Project BlinkenBone": > www.retrocmp.com/projects/blinkenbone > A real PDP-11 front panel was connected to a simulated PDP-11. > Well, nobody but me had any benefit from this project ... > > Meanwhile there is also a photorealistic simulation of the front panel itself. > It can be connected to SimH as an alternative to the physical panel. > So now everybody can run his/her very own Blinkenlight panel. > > I made a simple installation package: Just download, unzip, start, enjoy! > > It's been tested under WinXP/Win7 and Ubuntu. See download link and > instructions here: > www.retrocmp.com/projects/blinkenbone/176-blinkenbone-download-and-run-simulated-panels-for-free > > In case of problems please give feedback. Just what the doctor ordered! -- Mark Benson http://markbenson.org/blog http://twitter.com/MDBenson ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
[Simh] Idle detection on Ubuntu Linux
Just a quick one - does anyone have the idle detaction in 3.9.0 working on Ubuntu Linux of VAX? If so what option did you use for 'idle='? I've had to shutdown the emulated machine on my Microserver because it's paging one of the cores at 100% and I've realised it's running the main fan harder than it needs to. -- Mark Benson http://DECtec.info Twitter: @DECtecInfo HECnet: STAR69::MARK Online Resource & Mailing List for DEC Enthusiasts. ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
Re: [Simh] Extended SimH on BeagleBone controls real blinkenlight panels
I have a real yin to build something like this that uses USB or serial for comms and a software module that can be optionslly compiled into SimH to allow it to work on any system (perhaps via an extra device that can be configured in the SimH terminal) rather than spitting the console commands out. The key point is it should work on any machine with a USB port or better a Serial port (can be adaoted to USB) that can build SimH. Only issue is I have no programming experience outside PHP5, I'm awful at soldering and I'm no genius with making panes and stuff like that either. However my *dad* has offered to build the hardware for me if I can come up with a plan. I don't really know where to go from just the idea. Loads of people seem to have done it in various ways but they seem to be tailor made solutions. I'd like to make something generic and boxed so I can plug, configure in a suitably compiled SimH and go. Any guidance out there? -- Mark Benson http://markbenson.org/blog http://twitter.com/MDBenson ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
Re: [Simh] 3.8-2 rc2 Windows XP disk access issue
On 17 Mar 2012, at 15:34, Timothe Litt wrote: > Sounds like M$ "system restore". It monitors files by type (extension) so > you can undo bad drivers/patches. Turns out that many typical choices for > emulator disk images get monitored - which means XP chases its tail tracking > changes. It's a losing proposition. > > Try changing the file type on your emulated disks - to something it doesn't > monitor. There are lots of file types that will get you in trouble. Try > something like .vax-disk-image (e.g. dua0.vax-disk-image). > > See > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa378870(v=vs.85).as > px for the list (don't edit %windir%\system32\restore\Filelist.xml - just > stay away from all listed file types.) > > I think the most common bad choice made by people in the DEC community is > .DSK... That's the ticket, thanks. I changed the filename to 'vax3900_system.disk' and it immediately stopped the issue dead. Thanks for the help folks, issue noted for future reference! -- Mark Benson http://DECtec.info Twitter: @DECtecInfo HECnet: STAR69::MARK Online Resource & Mailing List for DEC Enthusiasts. ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
[Simh] 3.8-2 rc2 Windows XP disk access issue
I appear to be having a bit of a problem with SimH VAX 3.8-2 rc2 and disk image access. I am using an old PIII 933MHz duel CPU workstation with 1GB RAM and XP SP2. I have the required VC++ Runtimes installed and Winpcap. I sourced the binaries from Mark Pizzolato. I have run it using a fresh RA90 disk image attached at RQ0 (generated by the emulator on startup). It boots from a VMS 7.3 ISO fine but when I try and do any heavy lifting from the disk image, like restore the 7.3 save_set to it form the CD using 'backup' it'll eventually error out (VMS backup reports the device is not writable) and the emulator will stop dead and the disk will be flat out with activity, but no CPU usage and nothing else going on in Windows. I can only get it to stop by restarting Windows XP (at which point VAX.exe eventually dies and the machine reboots). I have no Anti-virus on the machine as it's only used for DEC related stuff, I don't surf the web on it or read my e-mail (in short there's no malware on it either). I've surfaced scanned the physical hard drive in the machine and it appear to be error free, it seems the emulator. I have had no other issues with installing software, copying and moving files etc. I'm kinda stumped. Any ideas? -- Mark Benson http://DECtec.info Twitter: @DECtecInfo HECnet: STAR69::MARK Online Resource & Mailing List for DEC Enthusiasts. ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
[Simh] Compiled 3.8-2 rc2 Win32 binary with Networking
Hi, I am working on getting my PDP-11 emulator back running on my new Windows 2000 workstation. However I have run into the same but with 3.8-1 in Windows I ran into in Linux, that the PDP-11 emulator won't start DECnet because of a fault in the code from 3.8 that interfaced with pcap. 3.8-2 rc2 contains a fix but I have no means to compile a Windows binary as I did in NetBSD. Would someone be able to provide me with a network enabled binary for Windows 2000? Thanks :o) -- Mark Benson http://DECtec.info Twitter: @DECtecInfo HECnet: STAR69::MARK Online Resource & Mailing List for DEC Enthusiasts. ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
[Simh] Ethernet Bridge and living on the same LAN.
Hi, I have bootstrapped my latest evil project. I have a Cobalt Qube2 running NetBSD/cobalt and SimH! It's not very fast and it took a long time to compile but it works like a charm :) The Qube2 has a nice feature of having twin DEC 21134 10/100 ethernet adapters. This is great as I can assign one to SimH and leave the other one for TCP/IP on the native box. The purpose of this as many will know is to avoid the issue of the host not talking to it's own emulator. One thing that was previously suggested was that I bridge the ethernet ports on the box to allow them to talk to each other. I don't seem to be able to do this if they are on the sam LAN though as the LAN goes nuts because the traffic goes round in a big loop, and eventually the whole LAN basically crashes. Is there any way anyone knows to create an internal-only bridge? Is it even required if both interfaces are on a LAN with a router? -- Mark Benson http://DECtec.info Twitter: @DECtecInfo HECnet: STAR69::MARK Online Resource & Mailing List for DEC Enthusiasts. ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
[Simh] Another Serial question.
If I redirect the master terminal to /dev/ttyS0 (a serial port) will SimH carry on regardless of if a user interacts with the terminal? If I redirect it to a TELNET port the emulator quits if I close the telnet link (presumably because it defaults to modem controls and so closes the terminal on disconnect). Or... can I disable the modem controls on the telnet connection? -- Mark Benson http://markbenson.org/blog http://twitter.com/MDBenson ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
[Simh] Simulate Punch Tape Reader/Punch via RS232?
Is it possible to feed SimH VAX or PDP sims a punch tape data feed via RS232 or push it out to RS232? I don't have a real reader/punch but I'm curious all the same. I have a madcap plan in my head :) -- Mark Benson http://markbenson.org/blog http://twitter.com/MDBenson ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
Re: [Simh] PDP-11 using DZ11
On 18 Oct 2011, at 07:36, SPC wrote: It works fine with 32 lines now, I was just being thick I a moron - it was very getting late last night :) I suspect I tried it before I'd reset the system after the SYSGEN and it didn't initialise the DZ11 correctly. -- Mark Benson My Blog: <http://markbenson.org/blog> Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/mdbenson "Never send a human to do a machine's job..." ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
[Simh] PDP-11 using DZ11
Hi, Having setup my PDP-11 simulation (with bit of help from Matt) and built a successful SYSGEN on it, I am now fooling about trying to get terminal ports on it. I included a DZ11 device in the config using; set dz enable during the SYSGEN so the driver was picked up on the Autoconfig and installed. That seemed to work great. I used: attach -am dz 3200 to attach it to port 3200. I can now boot the sim and log in to the local terminal, but connecting to port 3200 via TELNET doesn't seem to have the desired effrect. Pretty dure I'm doing something stupid but need to know what ;) -- Mark Benson My Blog: <http://markbenson.org/blog> Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/mdbenson "Never send a human to do a machine's job..." ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
[Simh] 'Building' a PDP-11
Hi, I'm trying to bootstrap a 'simple' PDP-11 for use with RSX-11M Plus 4.2 and eventually DECnet and wondered if anyone had a hardware setup recommendation for the SIMH simulator. I am not after a large plethora of devices. A lot of the 'peripherals', like the punch tape reader/punch, various cartridge drives, terminal multiplexers etc, (which are fascinating real hardware) seem redundant for me as I am not building an environment for a particular application or environment, I intend to use it to run some languages and talk to my VAX and Alpha but that's more-or-less it. I am also confused as to wether to use a QBus or UNIBUS machine. The UNIBUS machines seem more popular, and the XU UNIBUS ethernet controller has a driver in the 11M Plus SYSGEN that the Q-Bus controller does not have. Is there a 'real' world machine that is fairly basic that I could use to bas my simulation on? Maybe an 11/83 or 11/84? About the only specification I currently need is a TK50 tape drive to read the install tape and a hard drive (an RQ is preferable so I can transfer the images tot he VAX emulator if needed and that's possible?) but that aside I'm otherwise open to suggestions. Thirdly I'd like to attach a terminal to a telnet port on the host computer too, if possible, as I'm aware that unlike a VAX running VMS 7.3 I am unlikely to be able to use telnet into a TCP/IP stack? Aside from the actual simulations this has been a very interesting voyage through specs, manuals, pictures and even the odd video of these crazy old beasts. While I can't see myself owning a PDP-11 I am keen to at least experience the use of RSX-11M to see what they were like. Thanks for any help :) -- Mark Benson My Blog: <http://markbenson.org/blog> Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/mdbenson "Never send a human to do a machine's job..." ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
[Simh] SIMH as a Service
Hi, I would like to auto-run SimH VAX at startup in Ubuntu Linux 10.04. Is there a way to make it a service I can (re)start as required? I will probably set the output from the master console to an alternate console tty area in the config. What's the best way to do this, I have no clue and a quick Google turns up very little :) -- Mark Benson My Blog: <http://markbenson.org/blog> Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/mdbenson "Never send a human to do a machine's job..." ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
