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1. ccsssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 115 AAV 3TY30 TN A EE isp Sent sacdantan teense T TTE 116 APPENDIX A SAMPLE CONFIGURATION FILES 11111111007777 maasasasana 119 VAX 4000 Model 108 configuration file ccseseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 119 PDP11 93 configuration ei inaanak cnasedwiucivadetsasanned saiiudanwadsnasbendiearuannvasden 129 VAX 6310 configuration file wis nana NANANAKIT NANANA ANA 131 APPENDIX B PATHWORKS 32 tigi vancencseevecetas sic seacsaccsvteseeeteraduecctesecscsenies 136 APPENDIX C FAQ AND TROUBLESHOOTING 0 ecccecceeeeteseeseeeeeeeees 139 APPENDIX D VAX VMS NOTEG cccccceseeeeeeeeeseesseeeeeeeeeeseeeeeseeneeeeeeenens 143 Host system load and performanCe cccccsssseenesseeeeeeeeneeneeeeesneeeeeeeesseneeeeeeneenes 143 VAXIVMS clustering un aaa mGA KANA NAKAKA BAAANASASA NA AA 143 READERS COMMENTS akn pnaka akan kaa nG Ana kla baa nak kaka a kakasa NAGA l Contents vi Preface The VAX PDP11 processor family made by Digital Equipment Corporation has largely earned its place in the history of computing Over two decades of development and sales exposed millions of computer users to these well designed and reliable systems which were even copied in the former East block as the best architecture available But technology has moved on and the quest for ever faster smaller and cheaper components has made VAX PDP11 hardware obsolete While system
2. gt gt gt BOOT DUAO After logging into VMS the SHOW DEVICE command displays the following sho dev d Device Device Error Volume Free Trans Mnt Name Status Count Label Blocks Count Cnt DISKSSDUA0 Mounted 0 DSSI01 31932 147 1 DISKSSDUA1 Online 0 sho dev m Device Device Error Volume Free Trans Mnt Name Status Count Label Blocks Count Cnt TAPESSMUA3 Online 0 3 13 3 Virtual DSSI cluster configurations for the VAX 4000 emulator The hardware DSSI bus establishes private node to node communication channels between any two DSSI nodes that are part of the same DSSI bus In this context the DSSI storage controllers are also nodes like VAX computers but are running special software The CHARON DSSI emulation replicates this structure by establishing TCP IP channels between each pair of emulated SHAC host adapters and by connecting the emulated HSD50 storage controllers to every SHAC on the same virtual DSSI network Consider a pair of emulated VAX 4000 model 106 or 108 nodes VAX_A and VAX_B running on host system HOST_A and HOST_B respectively The two emulated VAX nodes have their own emulated SHAC host adapters interconnected with the virtual DSSI bus In order to communicate properly these two adapters must have different DSSI node id s DSSI_NODE_ID_A_ and DSSI NODE ID B which must be explicitly specified in the corresponding VAX consoles Next every emulated SHAC host adapter participating in the virt
3. DHW42AA DHV11 DHW42BA DHV11 DHW42CA DHV11 DZV11 DZ11 DZQ11 DZ11 Use the following command to load an instance of an asynchronous serial line multiplexer LOAD lt device name gt lt DLL name gt lt logical name gt Example load DHQ11 DHV11 TXA The DLL name can be omitted if it has already been loaded by a previous instance Note that you can only load one instance of DHW42 There is no restriction on the number of the other multiplexers The multiplexers offer the following configuration parameters which can be specified with the SET command Parameter Type Value CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 39 Parameter address vector line N N 0 3 7 15 communication N N 0 4 7 15 rts N N 0 3 7 15 dsr N N 0 3 7 15 tx q max depth N N 0 3 7 15 To load several instances of Type Numeric Numeric Identifier Character String Character Numeric Value Specifies the CSR address The address must be a valid QBUS 22 bit wide address in IO space Default values are 017760440 for DHV11 family controllers and 017760100 for DZV11 DZQ11 which are the factory settings for asynchronous serial line multiplexers Not applicable to the DHW42 Specifies the interrupt vector Default value is 0300 which is the factory setting for asynchronous serial line multiplexers Not applicable for DHW42 Specifies the name of the serial line interface object in the configuration to
4. where L is letter from A through Z and D is decimal number from 0 through 99 If not specified device name is set to DU and device type is set to HSX00 for disk unit and to MU and HSTOO0 respectively for tape unit Initialy not specified This string value with a special format specifies the explicit geometry of the disk storage element with DSSI node id N and MSCP unit number N This parameter is not applicable to tape storage elements The string format is lt X gt lt Y gt lt Z gt where e Xis number of sectors on track e Y is number of tracks on cylinder e Z optional is the number of cylinders on the unit If omitted Z is calculated based on X Y and the total number of sectors on the unit that reflects the size of the disk storage element If this parameter is not set CHARON VAX will configure the geometry based on the most probable disk type Enables use of host OS I O buffering Initially set to NO buffering disabled an emulated HSD50 storage controller with a non PAA dssi node id 5 Standalone VAX system with 2 disks set session hw mode1 VAX 4000 Model 108 CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 68 set session log examplel log set toy container examplel dat set rom container examplel rom load virtual serial line OPAO port 10003 application opa0 ht set PAA container 0 C mydisks dia0 rz24 vms v6 2 vdisk set PAA con
5. IDE SCSI A or NAB or whatever for floppy drives 1 2 1 44 2 88MB Direct SCSI addressing is NOT supported Overrides default automatically determined MSCP media type of the device Syntax lt device name gt lt device type gt Where lt device name gt is one of DU DK SCSI DI DSSI DJ lt device type gt is of the form LLD or LLLD where L is letter from A through Z and D is decimal number from 0 through 99 If not specified device name is set to DU and device type is selected based on disk size Initially not specified CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 75 Parameter Type Value geometry N Character This string value with a special format specifies the N 0 9999 explicit geometry of the disk storage element with DSSI node id N and MSCP unit number N This parameter is not applicable to tape storage elements The string format is lt X gt lt Y gt lt Z gt where e Xis number of sectors on track e Y is number of tracks on cylinder e Z optional is the number of cylinders on the unit If omitted Z is calculated based on X Y and the total number of sectors on the unit that reflects the size of the disk storage element If this parameter is not set CHARON VAX will configure the geometry based on the most probable disk type use io file buffering N Boolean Enables use of host OS
6. set toy container vax001 dat set rom container vax001 rom load virtual serial line OPAO port 10003 application opa0 ht set PAA port 2 11012 host 2 host002 11021 set PAA port 3 11013 host 3 host003 11031 include h ourdisks disksets cfg The CHARON VAX configuration file for the emulated VAX 4000 Model 108 node named VAX002 running on HOST002 is as follows set session hw_model VAX 4000 Model 108 set session log vax002 log CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 73 set toy container vax002 dat set rom container vax002 rom load virtual_serial_line OPAO port 10003 application opa0 ht set PAA port 1 11021 host 1 host001 11012 set PAA port 3 11023 host 3 host003 11032 include h ourdisks disksets cfg And the following is the CHARON VAX configuration file for the emulated VAX 4000 Model 108 node named VAX003 running on HOST003 set session hw mode1 VAX 4000 Model 108 set session log vax003 log set toy container vax003 dat set rom container vax003 rom load virtual serial line OPAO port 10003 application opa0 ht set PAA port 1 11031 host 1 host001 11013 set PAA port 2 11032 host 2 host002 11023 include h ourdisks disksets cfg 3 14 KDB50 The KDB50 is an MSCP disk controller for the VAX 6000 MSCP controllers are highly autonomous units that offload the VAX CPU significantly The virtual KDB50 controller in CHARON VAX suppor
7. Each VAX or PDP11 CPU emulation occupies one host CPU so the total number of CPUs should be bigger than a sum of all the emulated CPUs Note that some CPUs needs to be used for I O processing and at least one CPU for the operating system housekeeping Thus the total amount of the host CPUs depends on the number of the CPUs needed for I O The general recommendation is to leave at least 1 3 of the CPUs available to an instance for the instance I O but depending on data flow this number can be increased decreased for each instance separately The minimal host memory is calculated as a sum of emulated memory of each the CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 instances plus at least 1 5 Gb of additional memory CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 installation 19 2 Configuration file of each CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 instance should exactly specify the following a The number of CPUs chosen for I O operations n of io cpus By default this parameter is equal to 1 3 of the CPUs available for certain emulator round by 1 and of course this value cannot be less than one But it is possible to dedicate a chosen number of CPUs for I O processing in case of intensive or in opposite case very shallow data flow b Number of the CPUs the instance allocates By default CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 instance grabs as many CPUs as possible To balance the number of host CPUs between different instances a special parameter affinity is provided This
8. In this example the following configuration will be created e 256Mb of memory e ACE the Advanced VAX CPU Emulation disabled e A VAX console emulated with the Putty terminal emulator e One disk on a SCSI adapter emulated by a disk image e One Floppy disk on a SCSI adapter mapped to the A device e One SCSI CD ROM drive CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 86 e One SGEC Ethernet Adapter e One RQDX3 disk controller with a disk image mapped to this controller e One DHQ11 serial line controller line O of which is mapped to the Windows COM1 port e One DELQA Ethernet Adapter mapped to the second network card of the host See the Chapter on Device Configuration and the configuration examples in the Appendix for more complete explanations This is a relatively simple configuration that can rely on default values for address and vector Note that the parameters ADDRESS and VECTORS may be specified for a complex Qbus configuration Use the SRM console or SYSGEN CONFIGURE option to identify the correct values of the Qbus addresses and vectors 3 20 1 Set the model type The first line in the configuration file must be an exact specification of the target VAX model to be emulated In our case it is the VAX4000 Model 108 set session hw mode1 VAX 4000 Model 108 3 20 2 Create log NVRAM and ROM files Configure files for the system log the NVRAM and the ROM file with the following lines set session log charon log
9. MicroVAX 3100 Model 96 e MicroVAX 3100 Model 98 e MicroVAX 3600 e MicroVAX 3900 e MicroVAX II e VAXserver 3600 e VAXserver 3600 128 e VAXserver 3600 512 e VAXserver 3900 e VAXserver 3900 128 e VAXserver 3900 512 e VAX 4000 Model 106 e VAX 4000 Model 108 e VAX 6310 e VAXstation 4000 Model 90 e PDP1193 e PDP1194 configuration name Character A string specifying the name of the CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 instance It is displayed by the CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 tray icon The main use is distinguishing one instance from another one in case of the simultaneous running log locale Character Tells the language of message database So far the following values are recognized Dutch English Swedish Spanish Chinese Simplified By default it is set to English If specified an unsupported value English is used For example set session log locale Dutch CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 30 Parameter affinity n of io cpus Type Character Numeric Value Overrides initial process s affinity mask provided by host operating system Once specified it allows binding the running instance of emulator to particular host CPUs Might be used for soft partitioning host CPU resources for isolating host CPUs for other applications By default the emulator instance allocates as many host CPUs as possible The affinity overrides tha
10. in the interface option of the packet_port instance of the configuration file 3 Enter the ID in the configuration file Configure the packet_port component in your configuration file by pasting the clipboard after the connection keyword in this load command load packet port chnetwrk eza_0 interface connection lt paste here gt Please read the section on configuring the Ethernet Adapter for a description of other parameters and additional actions required 2 1 6 Configuring the replacement VAX or PDP11 After installation you must configure your CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 system to install VAX VMS or RSX11 RT11 Assuming a default installation and CHARON VAX product you can edit the configuration file e g mv3k196 cfg XM or mv3k198 cfg XK and XL with Notepad or any other text editor This file is available in the CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 target directory in the Build xxx xxx stands for the build number folder The configuration file should be saved in text format You can write your own configuration file based on the default You may find it useful to keep a copy of your configuration file for further reference or security Read the Chapter on Configuration to prepare a configuration file for the desired VAX PDP11 system within the limits of the CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 hardware The commented configuration file examples in Appendix A illustrate the structure and content of the configuration file parameters 2
11. 2 scesi2 0 4 Multi volume tape images may be handled as follows set MUA container 0 set MUA container 1 J set MUA container 2 set MUA container 3 In VMS for example BACKUP RESTORE MUAO BACKUP SAV MUA1 MUA2 MUA3 SAVE_SET DUAO 3 12 SCSI Controller CHARON VAX XX provides two SCSI controllers for SCSI models and SCSI QBUS models of VAX For a comparison between SCSI and T MSCP controllers see the chapter CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 system components Hardware disks Disk images Hardware tapes Tape images floppy devices and CD devices may be connected to these SCSI controllers Each device has to be configured to connect to a specific SCSI address in CHARON VAX XX Use the following emulated device types to map real peripherals to the emulated SCSI devices e virtual scsi disk for disk image containers and physical disks CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 57 e virtual scsi tape for tape image containers e physical scsi device for physical SCSI devices on the host This instance type can be used also for any SCSI device for example disk tape drives or SCSI CD ROM DVD ROM drives e atapi scsi device for any host ATAPI CD ROMs and DVD ROMs e floppy scsi device for host floppy disk drives CHARON VAX XX uses SCSI disks tape devices connected to the Windows host system as VAX disks tape devices or disk tape containers that are represented in the operating sy
12. CHARON VAX XX Plus CHARON PDP11 VAX PDP11 CPU performance can over perform original hardware up to few times The disk I O performance with modern SCSI disks exceeds that of any hardware VAX system 1 6 Host system requirements The CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 emulators are available for Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard and Enterprise Editions and Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate Editions 32 bit and 64 bit systems with dual Intel or AMD CPUs Please notice that licenses are only available as HASP dongles A dual CPU host system is required for adequate performance especially if the ACE CPU optimization or intensive I O is used A single CPU with Hyper Threading enabled will not meet the needs of a second CPU Running multiple instances of CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 is possible using multiple instances require specific license To function correctly CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 require a host system with a CPU clock frequency of at least 1 GHz At startup the emulator will issue a warning if it detects a CPU with a lower frequency and will terminate execution when the detected frequency is lower than 600 MHz Note that the host system must be dedicated to CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 for reliable stability In a typical system the emulated VAX PDP11 CPU will load one host CPU for 100 The second host CPU handles the emulation of the remaining emulated VAX PDP11 components in particular disk and network I O The second host CPU retai
13. DELQA DEQNA XQA load ndis5 chpack port XQA0O interface connection lt connection name gt set XQA interface XQA0 load DELQOA XQB address load DELQOA XQC address Configure optional DHV11 or DHQ11 CXY08 CXA16 CXB16 serial line controller QBUS Address and vector must be set as required by operating system load DHV11 DHV11 TXA load DHQ11 DHV11 TXA load CXY08 DHV11 TXA load CXA16 DHV11 TXA load CXB16 DHV11 TXA load physical serial line chserial TXAO line COMn load virtual serial line chserial TXAO port 10010 load virtual serial line chserial TXAO port 10010 application txa0 ht set TXA line 0 TXAO load physical serial line chserial TXA1 line COMn load virtual serial line chserial TXA1 port 10011 load virtual serial line chserial TXA1 port 10011 application txal ht set TXA line 1 TXA1 load physical serial line chserial TXA2 line COMn load virtual serial line chserial TXA2 port 10012 load virtual serial line chserial TXA2 port 10012 application txa2 ht set TXA line 2 TXA2 Sample configuration files 127 load physical serial line chserial TXA3 line COMn load virtual serial line chserial TXA3 port 10013 load virtual serial line chserial TXA3 port 10013 application txa3 set TXA line 3 TXA3 load physical_serial_line chserial TXA4 line COMn load virtual_serial_line chserial TXA4 port 10014 load virtual_serial_line chserial TXA4
14. Emulation mode ACE The ACE option optimizes the VAX instruction interpretation This significantly improves performance but requires approximately two times as much host memory to store the optimized code As this optimization is performed dynamically during execution it does not need to write optimized code back to disk and provides its full capability instantly The optimization does not compromise the VAX instruction decoding CHARON VAX remains fully VAX hardware compatible and completely transparent to VAX operating systems and applications Both CPU models pass the HP VAX Architecture AXE tests which is the qualification for VAX instruction execution correctness The default VAX CPU mode is determined by the specific CHARON VAX XX product license Parameter Type Values ace mode boolean true or false This statement can enable the ACE mode if the CHARON VAX license permits it If this statement is omitted in the configuration file and the license permits it true is the default otherwise false is the default For test purposes the ACE mechanism can be disabled with set cpu ace_mode false Note that set cpu ace_mode true is ignored when the license does not permit ACE operation The status of the ACE option is listed in the log file As the ACE mode is switched off if the host system does not meet the minimal requirements for this mode a verification is useful if the emulator appears not to run at its normal performa
15. Needs a HASP key Only insert the key when requested to do so Desktop Icon B h Space Requirements This selection 80 58 Mb Total space 80 58 Mb cee Again please review what components should be removed repaired and press Next to proceed Note that even if only one component of some products remains the whole product is considered as installed Uninstall all the product components to remove the product completely CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 installation 23 2 2 Transferring data to CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 There are several ways to transfer data from a VAX PDP11 system to CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 2 2 1 Using the Local Area Network First perform a standard installation of your VAX PDP11 Operating System from the manufacturer s original media using the Windows CD ROM drive Then configure a network DECnet and or TCP IP to add your CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 to your existing Network with a unique address and use DECnet or TCP IP to copy your applications and data to your CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 If for any reason building an Operating system from scratch is a problem call your CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP171 sales contact for help in preparing a temporary alternative Once you have a CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 connected to your Network you may use standard utilities to copy across the required data Before copying the data you will have to configure CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 with adequate fre
16. UCX or TCP IP Services for OpenVMS installed licensed and properly configured The XDM service is started using the SYSSMANAGER TCPIPSCONFIG COM To provide access to your host by eXcursion you need to copy and rename the file XACCESS TEMPLATE to XACCESS TXT Edit the file xACCESS TXT and check that the following line is uncommented Pathworks 32 136 any host can get a login window Configure the eXcursion Control Panel In the XDMCP tab check the box Enable XDMCP In the XDMCP Startup Mode choose Broadcast Mode and Max Host 256 Click on the Start Server Button A list box appears and displays the available XDMCP Hosts For more information about eXcursion see the eXcursion User Guide Pathworks 32 137 AppendixC FAQ and troubleshooting Q When emulating a VAX with 512 MB of memory CHARON VAX XX cannot allocate enough resources for the emulated memory A Check that your host PC has sufficient memory to support your model of CHARON VAX XX See the section in this manual on host system requirements Q have previously used CHARON VAX Industrial Can use my existing configuration file with CHARON VAX XX A No the configuration files for these two products are quite different Even if you have configuration file from an older version of CHARON VAX XX please check the difference For example ndis5 packet port device does not exist anymore packet port is used instead If in doubt on how to convert your configura
17. Use these names in the configuration file to attach the SCSI controller to the tape devices of the host computer For example set pka 0 container Tape0 CHARON VAX XX supports direct SCSI addressing of tapes If you have a SCSI tape and the tape does not have a Windows driver or the driver is not working correctly you may instruct CHARON VAX XX to address the tape directly Before you try this method disable any Windows driver associated with this tape unit Attach the SCSI tape unit to the emulated SCSI controller as shown in the following example load physical scsi device chscsi tapebl scsi_bus pkb scsi id 1 set tapebl container scsi lt scsi port gt lt scsi bus gt lt scsi id gt lt lun gt Where lt scsi port gt stands for the number assigned by the Windows operating system to the controller to which the tape drive is connected lt scsi bus gt stands for the number of the SCSI bus to which the tape drive is connected usually 0 in general it depends on the type of SCSI controller lt scsi id gt stands for SCSI ID of the tape drive lt lun gt stands for logical unit number Can be omitted if 0 The SCSI port can be found in registry HKEY_Local_ Machine Hardware Devicemap Scsi key The bus and id can be determined from Start Settings Control Panel Administrative Tools Computer Management Device Manager SCSI tape device Note the properties of the SCSI device that represent your tape If
18. bi node id 1 Attach unit 0 of the PUA controller to disk image dsk or vdisk VMS would see it as DUAO set PUA container 0 vdisk vmssys vdisk Attach unit 1 of the PUA controller to physical disk drive N to be replaced with decimal number VMS would see it as DUA1 set PUA container 1 PhysicalDriveN Attach unit 9 of the PUA controller to CDROM drive 0 might to be replaced with another decimal number if necessary VMS would see it as DUA9 set PUA container 9 CdRomN Attach unit 10 of the PUA controller to floppy disk drive A to be replaced with B if necessary VMS would see it as DUA10 set PUA container 10 J A Sample configuration files 134 load DEBNI Ethernet Controller into slot 2 of the VAXBI load DEBNI DEMNA ETA vax bi node id 2 connect the ETA Ethernet controller to host network interface load ndis5 chpack port chnetwrk ETAO interface set ETA interface ETA0 Load VAXBI to UNIBUS adapter load DWBUA UBA vax bi node id 14 Load TMSCP tape to have the tape instead of non implemented TBK70 load TUK50 MUA Attach MUA controller to tape image mtd or vtape VMS would see it as MUAO set MUA container 0 mua0 mtd Attach MUA controller to physical tape drive N to be replaced with decimal number VMS would see it as MUAO set MUA container 0 TapeN this is the end
19. boot devices list in EEPROM If specified device unit is not configured in the boot devices list then PDP 11 Video terminal will be started and it is up to user which device to select for the boot Boot from the second unit of MSCP controller on default address set cpu 0 auto boot DU2 frequency Number The integer parameter frequency specifies the emulated CPU frequency in Megahertz possible values for the option are in range 0 30 The value of 0 means that the exact instruction timing mechanism will be switched off The non zero values can only be achieved if the host system is capable of delivering the requested emulated performance CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 34 instruction time table The string parameter instruction time table specifies how the instruction timing mechanism is specified off means that the mechanism is switched off and that the emulator is running at the maximum speed available in the host system If the parameter instruction time table is not specified off is assumed default means that the emulator is running at approximately the same clock speed as the hardware system that is emulated provided the host system is capable to deliver this emulated speed The original frequency of the PDP 11 hardware that is emulated must be specified file lt file_ name gt defines the file that contains the requested timing of the individual instructions i
20. if dealing with unusual SCSI devices without a driver Overview 3 As the MSCP controller always requires at least a default Windows driver for hardware disks if you cannot find an appropriate driver for your device it will be easier to select the SCSI controller with direct SCSI addressing SCSI controllers generate many more interrupts than MSCP controllers MSCP controllers do some pre processing of the I O which results in less fragmented operations and thus fewer interrupts Where higher throughput is required choose an MSCP controller as CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 will have to process less controller interrupts Use a TQK50 QBUS TUK50 UNIBUS controllers if tape images are required 1 3 Hardware compatibility CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 have been tested with AXE the VAX architecture compatibility verification tool used by Digital in the design of VAX hardware and MDM tests HP has verified CHARON VAX XX compatibility with AXE and provides VMS and layered product licenses for the transfer from hardware VAX to the CHARON VAX XX emulator When CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 are running on HP products the transfer license maintains the HP VAX PDP11 software warranties Further information is available at http www openvms compaq com openvms sri CHARON VAX emulator html The VAX PDP11 replacement components provided by CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 are designed to operate like their hardware equivalents CHARON VAX XX CH
21. is a disk tape device with LUNs 0 and 1 VMS handles them as let us say DKA300 and DKA301 MKA300 and MKA301 respectively The boot ROM of the CHARON VAX XX detects SCSI devices with multiple LUNs and builds proper device names for them show dev at the VAX console prompt to see a list This list is passed to OpenVMS when you start booting OpenVMS only creates devices for logical units 0 for each device detected in the boot ROM Add additional logical units by using the following SYSGEN command S MCR SYSGEN CONNECT DKxxx NOADAPTER CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 52 Where DKxxx MKxxx stands for correct OpenVMS name of the logical unit to be connected You can find this name in the SRM console with show scsi command Add this command to the VMS SYSTARTUP VMS COM file to ensure that it is executed on each startup Also note that the following rules are applied for logical units 1 Each SCSI device must implement logical unit O 2 A SCSI device must implement all logical unit numbers between the highest and the lowest numbers implemented Empty disk images can be created with the MKDISK utility See the Utilities Chapter CHARON VAX XX is able to boot OpenVMS disk images of any OpenVMS version starting with 4 5 or higher for MicroVAX Il or VAX 3600 and VMS 5 5 2 or higher for the VAX4000 Disk tape images may be compressed using standard Windows data compression The performance impact of data compression is m
22. is the actual address on which a network adapter responds Protocols like TCP IP leave the MAC address unmodified but DECnet sets it to a specific value Two identical MAC addresses on the LAN can block all network communication To reset the MAC address to the default manufacturing value unique for each adapter clear the Address Resolution Protocol ARP cache in the host system which stores recently used network addresses You do that by typing ARP d at a DOS prompt you can use ARP a to list the current settings You may need to repeat this operation on other local systems that may have cached an erroneous MAC address To reset the TCP IP protocol right click on the network adapter icon disable the adapter and then re enable it You should now be back to normal operations Q The emulator is unable to start The message is Your CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 license does not permit production software A You have tried to start CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 with a Field Test license key FAQ and troubleshooting 141 Appendix D VAX VMS notes Host system load and performance The VAX VMS operating system has an idle process that runs when the CPU is not used by any other processes This means that even when the emulated VAX CPU has no useful work to do it runs at full speed It thereby claims all capacity of the host CPU on which the VAX CPU component is running The CHARON VAX host CPU optimization package is designed to cor
23. log method append set toy container charon dat set rom container charon rom By default these files are stored in the folder from where the CHARON VAX XX image is executed If you like you can specify some exact path for your log file for instance set session log C Logs charon log log_method append Note Specify the log_method before or in the same line as the log parameter The rom definition is only applicable to the MicroVAX3100 Models 96 98 and VAX4000 Models 106 108 3 20 3 Optionally specify the ACE mode VAX emulators only By default the system configures ACE Advanced VAX CPU emulation as defined by your license key the Plus versions of the CHARON VAX emulator products include ACE To see the effect of running the emulator without ACE when you have a Plus license code the option as follows set cpu ace_mode false To specifically set the ACE option enter true instead of false Note that ACE is switched off if the host system configuration does not meet the host system CPU or memory requirements to run ACE CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 87 3 20 4 Specify the VAX memory Set the required amount of VAX memory in our example 256Mb with the following line set ram size 256 The maximum emulated memory is limited by four elements 1 The CHARON VAX license key restricts the maximum emulated memory i e CHARON VAX XM is limited to 128MB CHARON VAX XK is limited to 256MB and CHARO
24. port 10014 application txa4 set TXA line 4 TXA4 load physical_serial_line chserial TXA5 line COMn load virtual_serial_line chserial TXA5 port 10015 load virtual_serial_line chserial TXA5 port 10015 application txa5 set TXA line 5 TXA5 load physical serial line chserial TXA6 line COMn load virtual serial line chserial TXA6 port 10016 load virtual serial line chserial TXA6 port 10016 application txa6 set TXA line 6 TXA6 load physical serial line chserial TXA7 line COMn load virtual serial line chserial TXA7 port 10017 load virtual serial line chserial TXA7 port 10017 application txa7 set TXA line 7 TXA7 load DHV11 TXB address load DHQ11 TXB address load CXY08 TXB address load CXA16 TXB address load CXB16 TXB address this is the end of the configuration file Sample configuration files 128 ht W ht ht ht ht PDP11 93 configuration file Copyright C 1999 2011 STROMASYS All rights reserved The software contained on this media is proprietary to and embodies the confidential technology of STROMASYS Possession use duplication or dissemination of the software and media is authorized only pursuant to a valid written license from STROMASYS p ee ee ee eee eee ee set session hw_model PDP1193 set session log pdp1193 log log_method append set session log pdp1193 log log method overwrite
25. set toy container pdp1193 dat Specify KW11 L timer frequency here default is 50 Note that appropriate disk image supports appropriate frequency because system clock frequency is the system configuration parameter set KW11 frequency 50 set KW11 frequency 60 Now assign console built in serial line Currently the emulator offers two possible ways using serial lines First of them is connection to COM ports via physical_serial_line The second is to attach a third party terminal emulator virtual serial line load physical serial line TTO line COM1 load virtual serial line TTO port 10003 load virtual serial line TTO port 10003 application opa0 ht load virtual serial line TTO port 10003 application putty load OPA0 set uart line TTO Sample configuration files 129 Configure optional RQDX3 storage controller MSCP QBUS Handles disk images disk drives CD ROM drives magneto optical drives floppy drives load RQDX3 DU set DU container 0 set DU container 1 set DU container 2 set DU container 3 Boot from DUO MSCP disk set cpu 0 auto_boot DU0 this is the end of the configuration file Sample configuration files 130 VAX 6310 configuration file H H H H FH HH HH H H H H FH Hh oth E E ae Copyright C 1999 2011 Software Resources International All rights reserved The software cont
26. systems provide support for a TQK50 tape controller The original TQK50 tape controller is capable of serving only 1 tape unit But the CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 extend this limit so that the TQK50 tape controller can be configured with up to 10000 tape units Use the following command to load an instance of a TQK50 tape controller LOAD TOK50 lt logical name gt Example load TQK50 MUA Note that the specification of TQK50 DLL can be omitted in this case since the name of the device is the same as the name of DLL The TQK50 has the following configuration parameters which can be specified with the SET command Parameter Type Value address Numeric Specifies the CSR address The address must be a valid QBUS 22 bit wide address in IO space Initial value is 017774500 which is the factory setting for TQK50 tape controllers container N String Specifies the location of the tape container It can be either the name of a VTAPE MTD file or the name of a physical tape N 0 9999 date Tapex for the local physical tape drive SCSI for which a driver is loaded Direct SCSI addressing may be used if no Windows driver is available media type N Character Overrides default automatically determined MSCP media type N 0 9999 of the device Syntax lt device name gt lt device type gt Where lt device name gt is one of MU MK SCSI MI DSSI or MJ lt device type gt is
27. the adapter s permanent address is read from the host system s NIC Set the station address when you need to configure a satellite remotely booted system which will run DECnet or when the migrated software uses the permanent address on the network adapter Format XX XX XX XX XX XX Or XX XX XX XX XX XX Interface Character Name of corresponding instance of packet port component rx fifo size Numeric rx fifo size sets the receive FIFO size The value is specified in Kb and by default is pre calculated from the connected port s size of receive queue Typically you don t need to change the rx fifo size parameter It is available for extended tuning and bug hunting purposes Example set eza station address AF 01 AC 78 1B CC 3 15 2 DEQNA DESQA DELOA Ethernet Controllers The CHARON VAX XX Q bus systems and CHARON PDP11 provide support for DEQNA DESQA DELQA DEUNA DELUA Ethernet controllers Use the following command to load an instance of DEQNA DESQA DELQA DEUNA DELUA Ethernet controllers LOAD DEQNA lt logical name gt LOAD DELQA DEQNA lt logical name gt LOAD DESQA DEQNA lt logical name gt LOAD DEUNA DEUNA lt logical name gt LOAD DELUA DEUNA lt logical name gt Example load DEQNA XQA You may specify the name of the DLL from which the corresponding device is loaded DEQNA DLL for Qbus system or DEUNA DLL for Unibus PDP system However for the DEQNA or DEUNA Ethernet controller the DL
28. the name PKA If a second adapter PKB is required then add the following line to the configuration file before loading and configuring any devices on the second SCSI adapter PKB CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 53 include kzdda cfg kzdda cfg loads the second SCSI adapter Note that once the PKB has been loaded it s not possible to use VMS5 5 2 In this case the minimal version must be VMS5 5 2H4 3 12 1 virtual scsi disk Use virtual scsi disk for disk containers and physical disks This is the most convenient way of connecting disks to SCSI adapters of CHARON VAX XX virtual scsi disk has the following parameters CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 54 Parameter Type Value container N Character A string containing the full path to a disk container or N 0 7 name of the host physical disk to map N stands for Paga logical unit number It must begin with O and must have no gaps If only a name of the disk container is specified CHARON VAX XX will look for the container in the installation directory in the directory Build_ lt xxx gt x86 media type N character Overrides PRODUCT ID in the default SCSI INQUIRY N 0 7 gaa Valid values may contain uppercase letters decimal figures spaces Length of string shall not exceed 16 characters If not specified synthetic SCSI INQUIRY data is returned containing PRODUCT ID selected based on disk size Initially left unspecified geometry N character This s
29. the number of provided VAX models and the emulated VAX memory size CHARON VAX XM has a maximum of 128 MB in the allowed models CHARON VAX XK Plus emulates up to 256 MB CHARON VAX XL emulates the full 512 MB VAX product variations are available in two CPU performance levels The standard VAX CPU emulator or the Advanced CPU Emulation mode ACE previously known as DIT mode see the Chapter on VAX PDP11 CPU s CHARON VAX XM Plus VAX CPU type Max VAX memory Product code Standard 128 MB CHVX 021 PD WI Plus ACE enabled 128 MB CHVX 221 PD WI CHARON VAX XK Plus VAX CPU type Max VAX memory Product code Plus ACE enabled 256 MB CHVX 221 PE WI CHARON VAX XL Plus VAX CPU type Max VAX memory Product code Standard 512 MB CHVX 021 PF WI Plus ACE enabled 512 MB CHVX 221 PF WI CHARON PDP11 PDP CPU type Max PDP11 Product code memory Standard 4 MB CHVX XXX WI 1 5 Performance The CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 CPU performance scales with the clock frequency of the host CPUs provided the host memory latency is increased by the same factor The performance also depends on the CHARON VAX version The Plus versions are identical to the standard version with the exception that they contain a sophisticated Overview 5 subsystem providing an advanced VAX CPU emulation mode ACE significantly improving VAX CPU emulation speed at the expense of additional host CPU cycles and memory Depending on the host platform the
30. to 256 storage elements CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 60 To use a single CHARON VAX system with DSSI emulation either or both of the two elements must be configured e A DSSI storage element disk or tape e A DSSI storage controller For the moment an emulated HSD50 storage controller is provided The emulated HSD50 supports physical host drives CDRom drives physical tapes removable disks virtual disks and tapes To create a cluster of DSSI interconnected CHARON VAX XX systems the DSSI hardware topology is emulated by establishing TCP IP channels between the emulated SHAC host adapters of each CHARON VAX XX system The use of TCP IP for the interconnects makes the cluster in principle routable in a WAN The emulated HSD50 storage controllers are then connected to every SHAC host adapter in the virtual DSSI network Cluster operation requires virtual disks that are simultaneously accessible by all CHARON VAX nodes involved This can be implemented for instance by using a properly configured iSCSI initiator target structure or a fiber channel storage back end The Windows remote shares can be also used but these do not offer the reliability required for a VAX cluster Disks on a multiport SCSI switch are not acceptable as a SCSI switch does not provides true simultaneous access to multiple nodes Note that the emulated DSSI subsystem has many configurable parameters when multiple nodes on a single DSSI bus are to
31. txa4 ht set TXA line 4 TXA4 load physical serial line chserial TXA5 line COMn load virtual serial line chserial TXA5 port 10015 load virtual serial line chserial TXA5 port 10015 application txa5 ht set TXA line 5 TXA5 load physical serial line chserial TXA6 line COMn Sample configuration files 125 load virtual serial line chserial TXA6 port 10016 load virtual serial line chserial TXA6 port 10016 application txa6 ht set TXA line 6 TXA6 load physical serial line chserial TXA7 line COMn load virtual serial line chserial TXA7 port 10017 load virtual serial line chserial TXA7 port 10017 application txa7 ht set TXA line 7 TXA7 Configure optional RQDX3 storage controller MSCP QBUS Handles disk images disk drives CD ROM drives magneto optical drives floppy drives load RQDX3 DUA set DUA container 0 lt file name gt vdisk set DUA container 1 PhysicalDriveN set DUA container 2 CdRomN set DUA container 3 lt file name gt iso set DUA container 4 H load RQDX3 DUB address load RQDX3 DUC address Configure optional TQK50 tape storage controller TMSCP QBUS Handles tape images and physical tape drives attached to the host load TQK50 MUA set MUA container 0 lt file name gt vtape set MUA container 1 TapeN load TQK50 MUB address load TOK50 MUC address Sample configuration files 126 load
32. via physical serial line The second is to attach a third party terminal emulator virtual serial line And the third one is to connect to MOXA NPort 5210 box ports via np5210 serial line Once desired way of connection is chosen load the interface like OPAO which is expected by built in console controller H H H H MOXA NPort 5210 box connection load np5210 serial line chserial OPAO set OPAO ip xxx xxx xxx xxx rs_port n Physical COM port connection load physical_serial_line chserial OPAO line COM1 Virtual serial line connection listening for the TCP IP port number 10003 on the host system It is possible to connect to this port from any appropriate application standard terminal user written terminal etc load virtual_serial_line chserial OPAO port 10003 Virtual serial line connection listening for the TCP IP port number 10003 on the host system Specified program is started Sample configuration files 133 automatically load virtual serial line chserial OPAO set OPAO port 10003 application opa0 ht set OPAO port 10003 application putty exe load OPA0 set OPAO port 10003 application c kea user opa0 ktc load DWMBB XMI to VAXBI adapter into slot 14 of the XMI load DWMBB XBA xmi_node_id 14 Slots 1 15 1 F of the VAXBI are able to handle I O adapters load KDB50 MSCP disk controller into slot 1 of the VAX BI load KDB50 PUA vax
33. 1 MSCP and TMSCP Controllers CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 provide MSCP controllers for hardware disks including floppy and CD DVD and disks images TMSCP controllers provide support for hardware tapes and tape images For a comparison between SCSI and T MSCP controllers see the chapter CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 system components MSCP and TMSCP controllers are added to the configuration using the LOAD command The individual units are defined by using the container parameter Note that MSCP devices appear in VMS as DUA for the first controller and DUB for the second controller etc TMSCP devices appear in VMS as MUA MUB etc When adding multiple MSCP or TMSCP controllers follow the Qbus addressing conventions For more information see the Application Note 32 on how to configure addresses on a Qbus Empty disk images can be created with the MKDISK utility See the Utilities Chapter CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 are able to boot OpenVMS RSX11 RT11 disk images of any OpenVMS RSX11 RT11 version for OpenVMS starting with 4 5 or higher for MicroVAX Il or VAX PDP11 3600 and VMS 5 5 2 or higher for the VAX4000 It is not recommended to use Windows data compression The performance impact of data compression might be negative Physical disks used by CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 must not contain a file system known to the Windows operating system otherwise the drive will not be available for use in CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 With the utili
34. 1 7 Starting CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 must be installed from an account with administrator privileges but the installation process creates a CHARON GRP with the minimum requirements to be able to run CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 To run CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 from another account than the administrator account create a user CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 installation 17 account with CHARON GRP privileges or add CHARON GRP privileges to an existing user account To add a user account to the CHARON GRP Go to My Computer sManage sLocal Users and Groups 5Groups Right click CHARON GRP and press Properties Press Add to see a dialog for adding users Specify a name of the user press button Check names to verify that the name is correct Press Ok in all the dialogs Once you are logged in to an account with CHARON privileges start CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 using one of the following methods Use the desktop shortcut that was created at installation time to run CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 with the default configuration file You may wish to create your own configuration file In this case you can either create a new shortcut for your alternative configuration or start CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 from the console using the following syntax gt lt name of selected exe file gt lt configuration file gt Example gt mv3k6 exe c my_cfg my_configuration cfg Issue such a command from the Build_xxx sub folde
35. 10 i SCSI port verification for CHARON VAX Device class GN v Save As Service el Ee D Device path Description disk ST3800114 PhysicalDriveD Disk drive disk QUANTUM Bigfoot TX12 0 PhysicalDrivel Disk drive cdrom IDE ACdRomO CD ROM Drive fipydisk FDC NAMA Floppy disk drive Unusable device Emulator device string Close Microsoft Windows XP version 5 1 2600 Service Pack 1 KIRILL 24 maa 2004 r 11 04 44 You can store the configuration as found with SCSI Check using the Save As button and re display this configuration by pressing the Open button Selecting any specific device from the list makes the Copy path to clipboard button available Copying to clipboard helps to avoid a typing error when entering the device name into a CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration file If SCSIcheck cannot be used for some reason for example for some kind of NAS SAN network storage devices the alternative way to find out SCSI configuration details it to use Windows build in tools To find proper SCSI device information to be used as a CHARON emulator configuration file parameter open Computer Management application and select Device Manager Utilities 111 8 Computer Management 3 Computer Management Local 8 System Tools Task Scheduler y Disk drives Event Viewer Display adapters More Actions Shared Folders DVD CD ROM drives Local Users and Groups Floppy disk drives Reli
36. 11 devices as you wish and the system running on the emulated VAX PDP11 allows To do it use the standard Qbus parameters address and vectors to load the LPV11 instance to correct place on Qbus The following example demonstrates how to load 2 instances of LPV11 mapped to 2 host system LPT ports load chapi lpvl address 017777514 vector 0200 set lpvl dll lpv11 dll parameters LPT1 load chapi lpv2 address 017764004 vector 0170 set lpv2 dll lpv11 dll parameters LPT2 In this case the printers must be printers that can understand the LPV11 driver of the emulated VAX PDP11 Use printers that work with a hardware VAX PDP11 Use configure utility VAX available from the SRM console to find out the correct Qbus addresses and interrupt vectors for multiple LPV11 instances It is also possible to redirect output of LPV11 to some external application like for example HOSTprint see the Utilities chapter This application allows printing to the Windows system printers using the desired font CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 85 The following additional parameters are typically used to tune the HOSTprint for correct printing with LPV11 e port the TCP IP port the HOSTprint should connect to It is the same port opened by the given LPV11 instance e fontsize the font size to be used for printing e font the font to be used for printing The font name must be framed with V symbols In the followi
37. 11 will connect to the remote port specified by this parameter The application to run For example a 3 party terminal emulator or default HyperTerm terminal emulator Defines a key or combination of keys for the break operation Works only for the console line Ctrl P and or Break and or F5 Separate parameters with a comma none No break key is defined The default value is F5 Break for console lines UART and QUART line 3 only and none for the other lines Defines a key combination of keys to tell the emulator which external events could trigger a STOP condition Works only for the console line F6 or and Application specify one of them or all separating with comma none No stop key is defined The default value is F6 for the console line of QUART line 3 and for the only line of the UART and none for the other lines Set to Application to trigger the STOP condition when the associated application terminates Use this option only for Virtual serial lines configured for automatic application invocation where the APPLICATION parameter specifies a valid application Press the F6 button to trigger the STOP condition upon reception of the sequence lt ESC gt 17 Terminal emulators may send these sequences when pressing the F6 button load virtual serial line chserial GHI break on Ctr1 P F5 set GHI port 10000 stop on F6 Application or short form load virtual seri
38. 119 set session log vx4k108 log log method append set session log vx4k108 log log method overwrite The following line tells the emulator where to preserve NVRAM content It will keep the current time of the emulated VAX when you do not run the emulator and console parameters such as default boot device The following line tells the emulator where to store intermediate state of the Flash ROM It will keep the rest of console parameters It is recommended to keep both previous and this line uncommented for the emulator to be able to correctly preserve the saved state of the console Disable or enable dynamic instruction translation by the cpu ACE The use of DIT may be also prohibited by the license If not specified i e when both lines remain commented out the DIT is enabled as soon as the license allows to do so and is disabled otherwise set cpu ace mode false set cpu ace mode true Specify the size of RAM default is 16MB Note that DIT when enabled also needs certain amount of memory which grows linearly following the size of memory specified here Also remember that the dongle license might limit Sample configuration files 120 the maximum amount of memory set ram size 32 set ram size 64 set ram size 80 set ram size 128 set ram size 256 set ram size 512 Now assign four built in serial lines Currently the emulator offers two possible ways of using built in seria
39. ARON PDP11 do not include specific hardware diagnostic modes not used in normal operation Time delays that would be required for diagnostic software to correctly verify mechanical device behavior are not included CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 can in principle execute any VAX PDP11 operating system or binary application within the scope of its components However it is optimized for its main application area the replacement of larger single CPU and clustered VMS servers in administrative applications CHARON VAX XX has been tested to work with VMS 455 5 5 2H4 VMS 6 2 and VMS 7 3 CHARON VAX PDP11 with various versions of RSX11 and RT11 See the notes on VMS in the appendices CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 are not designed to replace VAX PDP11 systems in real time process control applications Other CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 products are designed to meet such needs When running OpenVMS VAX or RSX11 RT11 CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 can replace most modern VAX PDP11 systems also outside the models described above as VMS RSX11 RT11 strictly separate the applications from the underlying hardware characteristics CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 systems running OpenVMS RSX11 RT11 can be networked or clustered with other OpenVMS Overview 4 RSX11 RT11 systems running on CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 or on VAX PDP11 or Alpha hardware 1 4 Product versions The difference between CHARON VAX XM Plus CHARON VAX XK Plus and CHARON VAX XL Plus is
40. ARON VAWXL MicroVAX 3100 Model 98 Y 4 1 B 13402 Aug 2011 08 25 10 30 59 00000336 The end user of this software has agreed to STROMASYS Terms 2011 08 25 10 30 59 0000009D License info 2011 08 25 10 30 59 0000009D CHARON product code CHWAX 221 xF AT 2011 08 25 10 30 59 0000009D Licensed to Stromasys MSC 2011 08 25 10 30 59 0000009D Date limited license limited to 17 Jan 2012 T 2011 08 25 10 30 59 0000009D Warning setting the host system date back will permanently ir 2011 08 25 10 30 59 0000009D License KEY driver is installed as akshasp and is running 2011 08 25 10 30 59 0000009D Executable system324DRIVERS akshasp sys version 4 25 2011 08 25 10 30 59 00000097 OS Environment Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Edition 32 bit 4 mW b Click Run selected configuration to run CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 Launcher displays the CHARON log including any configuration and run time errors in the Launcher Window While CHARON VAX XX or CHARON PDP11 is running the CHARON Launcher updates the log file contents every 60 seconds After CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 stops the Launcher refreshes log window The log file language depends on the locale settings of your system English Chinese Simplified Dutch Spanish and Swedish versions are available Utilities 93 Click Edit CFG file to edit the selected configuration file using Notepad editor The ability of running a configuration displaying the log and editing the con
41. CHARON VAX XM for Windows CHARON VAX XM Plus for Windows CHARON VAX XK Plus for Windows CHARON M VAX XL for Windows CHARON VAX XL Plus for Windows CHARON PDP11 for Windows Version 4 1 Build 134 02 User Manual STROMASYS VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES 2005 2012 Stromasys SA Stromasys SA Under the copyright laws this manual and the software described within may not be copied in whole or in part without the written consent of Stromasys SA The same proprietary and copyright notices must be affixed to any permitted copies as were affixed to the original This exception does not allow copies to be made for others whether or not sold Under the law copying includes translating into another language or format User Manual for CHARON VAX XX Plus and CHARON PDP11 version 4 1 for Windows Server 2008 R2 64bit Standard and Enterprise Editions and Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate Editions 32bit and 64bit Document number 30 16 038 003 Version 04 April 2012 Email info stromasys com Ownership Notice Stromasys SA owns all rights including proprietary rights copyrights trademarks and world wide distribution rights to a methodology for the execution of VAX PDP11 and PDP11 applications and system software by emulating VAX PDP11 hardware components in software henceforth referred to as CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 CHARON PDP11 The license for CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 allows the execution of the software o
42. CP DEQNA etc The VAXstation 4090 code named Cougar is a mid size VAXstation based on KA49 A processor It includes 128 MB of memory integrated QUART console port TOY clock a timer a SCSI adapter and one integrated SGEC network adapter However its graphic subsystem is not emulated by CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 CHARON VAX XK Plus is an extended memory system supporting the VAX3600 and VAX 3900 the VAX6310 MicroVAX 3100 model 98 and the VAX 4000 model 108 that provide a maximum of emulated memory of 256MB The VAX6310 is the Calypso XCP Hyperion VAX based on VAXBI bus and KA62B processor It includes 256 MB of memory integrated UART console port TOY clock a timer XMI to VAX BI bus adapter and VAX BI to UNIBUS bus adapter CHARON VAX XL is an extended memory system supporting the VAX3600 and VAX 3900 the VAX6310 the MicroVAX 3100 model 98 and the VAX 4000 model 108 that provide a maximum of emulated memory of 512MB Note that with the MicroVAX 3100 model 96 98 and the 4000 models 106 and 108 there are certain limitations imposed by VMS Like the real VAX the CHARON VAX MicroVAX 3100 model 96 98 and 4000 106 108 need a minimum VMS version of 5 5 2 or later CHARON PDP11 is a system supporting the PDP11 93 and the PDP11 94 that provide a maximum of emulated memory of 4MB As a server configuration CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 do not emulate graphics hardware Graphic and character cell terminals can be connected via E
43. DDRESS and VECTOR parameters value must be unique for every instance of DEQNA DESQA DELQA DEUNA DELUA See the Application Note 32 for advice on configuring Qbus adapters Example load DEQNA XQA address 017774440 load DEQNA XQB address 017764460 3 15 3 PMAD AA TurboChannel Ethernet Adapter The CHARON VAX XX VAXstation 4000 Model 90 system provides support for additional to preloaded EZA PMAD AA TurboChannel Ethernet controller Use the following command to load an instance of PMAD AA Ethernet controller LOAD PMADAA lt logical name gt Example load PMADAA ECA The PMAD AA TurboChannel Ethernet controller offers the following configuration parameters which can be specified with the SET command Parameter Type Value CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 79 Parameter station address Interface rx fifo size Example Type Character Character Numeric Value station address provides the ability to configure the adapter s permanent address By default the adapter s permanent address is read from the host system s NIC Set the station address when you need to configure a satellite remotely booted system which will run DECnet or when the migrated software uses the permanent address on the network adapter Format XX XX XX XX XX XX Or XX XX XX XX XX XX Name of corresponding instance of packet port component rx fifo size sets the receive FIFO size The value is specified in Kb and by defaul
44. L name can be omitted as it is the same as the name of the device The DEQNA DESQA DELQA DEUNA DELUA offer the following configuration parameters which can be specified with the SET command CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 78 Parameter Type Value Address Numeric Specifies the CSR address The address must be a valid QBUS 22 bit wide address in IO space Initial value is 017774440 which is the factory setting for DEQNA DESQA DELQA Ethernet controllers station_address Character station_address provides the ability to configure the adapter s permanent address By default the adapter s permanent address is read from the host system s NIC Set the station_address when you need to configure a satellite remotely booted system which will run DECnet or when the migrated software uses the permanent address on the network adapter Format XX XX XX XX XX XX or XX XX XX XX XX XX where XX represents 8 bit value in hexadecimal form Interface Character Name of corresponding Instance of packet port component rx fifo size Numeric The RX FIFO SIZE sets the receive FIFO size The value is specified in KB and by default is pre calculated from the connected port s size of the receive queue Typically you don t need to change the RX FIFO SIZE parameter It is available for extended tuning and debugging purposes Use the ADDRESS and VECTOR parameters if loading several instances of DEQNA DESQA DELQA DEUNA DELUA The A
45. MS VAX running on CHARON VAX XX The following configuration line shows how to attach floppy drives to the SCSI controller of the emulator as DKB600 load floppy scsi device pkb 6 scsi_bus pkb scsi_id 6 CHARON VAX XX will make any installed floppy drives available to the emulated VAX as emulated SCSI devices 3 12 6 atapi_scsi_burner This facility is offered as is without support from Stromasys SA CHARON VAX XX allows VAX programs to write to a DVD burner Users may use the atapi_scsi_burner to replace tapes or optical drives like a RWZ52 or a RV20 Use the atapi_scsi_burner to extend the capability of your existing VMS systems by installing a DVD driver in VMS For example Eberhard 88 Heuser Hofmann vaxinf chemie uni konstanz de sells a product which is CD DVD reading writing software for VMS on both Alpha and VAX CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 59 Using the VAX driver and the CHARON VAX atapi scsi burner you can now backup 8 GB files The device location is specified in the configuration file using the full device name Use the atapi scsi burner for mapping IDE and SCSI DVD RW to CHARON VAX XX atapi scsi burner has the following parameter Parameters Type Value container N Character A string containing IDE or SCSI CD ROM to map to the N 0 7 emulator N stands for logical unit number It must begin from 0 and has no gaps If there is only one logical unit it can be omitted Example load atapi_scsi_burner
46. N VAX XL is limited to 512MB of memory 2 The emulated VAX PDP11 model may be limited For example the standard versions of the MicroVAX 3600 3900 and VAXserver 3600 3900 are limited to a maximum of 64 MB PDP11 93 and PDP11 94 are limited to a maximum of 4MB 3 The version of your operating system may not support the maximum memory offered by your CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 license 4 The original VAX PDP11 may have had less memory and thus the operating system may need to be reconfigured to take advantage of the extended memory 3 20 5 Set the default VAX console The default VAX console is connected to the 4 port 3 of the QUART adapter and connected to the putty exe emulator provided as a part of the kit The Putty emulator is started by calling it in the following way putty exe load OPAO load virtual_serial_line chserial OPAO port 10003 application putty exe load OPA0 set quart line 3 0PA0 3 20 6 Define the disk drive Connect a VAX disk image to the first built in SCSI adapter named PKA The SCSI address of this disk will be defined as 0 so it will appear in the VAX VMS environment as DKAO load virtual scsi disk chscsi pka_0 scsi_bus pka scsi_id 0 set pka O container 0 system vdisk Note that the emulator will look for the disk image in the subdirectory Build XXX of your CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 installation directory if you use this syntax It is recommended to specify the full path to your disk im
47. O buffering N 0 9999 Initially set to NO buffering disabled Examples Create a KDB50 MSCP controller in VAX BI slot 1 load KDB50 KDB50 PUA vax bi node id 1 Configure on this controller a system disk to show up as DUAO in VMS set PUA container 0 vms72 66X0 vdisk Configure a user disk to show up as DUA1 in VMS set PUA container 1 usertest vdisk The first host system CD ROM can be used to read VMS CDs and shows up as DUAY set PUA container 9 CdRom0 The host system floppy drive A can be used in VMS as DUA10 set PUA container 10 A Notes The default setting in the Windows operating system is to checkpoint dsk files causing slow disk operation or disk offline errors in CHARON VAX CHARON PDP 11 Attempts to use a file name with another extension will result in a DISK OFFLINE message CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 76 e Configured physical devices or tape disk images that do not exist on the host system will in general cause VAX VMS RSX11 RT11 to report that the unit is offline In some cases this can result in a VMS BUG CHECK but in this case the error is noted in the log file 3 15 Ethernet adapters To configure CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 for networking follow the steps described in the section on Network installation Here we describe the parameters for the SGEC SCSI systems DEQNA DESQA DELQA Qbus systems DEUNA DELUA PDP Unibus system and the CHARON NDIS6 P
48. OMASYS To collect license information select Collect Status Information and press Collect Information button The utility will ask for name of the c2v file to be created and its location Once the file is created it should be provided to STROMASYS for getting update to the license To update the current license select Apply License Update choose v2c file provided by STROMASYS with the bottom at the lower edge of the dialog and press Apply Update HASP RUS will display information whether the update was successful or not In case of failure it is required to provide the displayed status to STROMASYS to trace the updating problem Utilities 709 It is possible to update CHARON VAX CHARON PDP171 license on fly while CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 is running But it is still recommended to stop the emulator update the license and run the emulator again 4 6 HASP View utility HASP View utility allows reading the content of CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 license The Utility reads a connected HASP HL or HASP SRM dongle and provides content of the license in its main window The license text can be scrolled up and down and copied to clipboard Use Refresh button to reread the license dongle 4 7 SCSI Check The SCSI check utility is designed to locate the correct CHARON names for physical disks tapes CD ROM drives floppies and other SCSI devices found on the system At startup the util
49. ON PDP11 over a hardware based emulator is the scalability with its host system The CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 performance is proportional to the CPU clock frequency of its host system and every time you move to a faster host system your virtual VAX PDP11 will also get faster 1 2 CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 system components CHARON VAX XM provides an extended MicroVAX 3100 model 96 server configuration This includes the NVAX CPU two SCSI controllers each supporting up to 56 disk or tape drives disk images CD drives and Floppy drives up to 128 MB of VAX memory and its integrated Ethernet controller SGEC SCSI disks can be much larger than the maximum size 4 3 GB originally shipped with the MicroVAX 3100 model 96 MicroVAX 3600 amp 3900 are small Q bus VAX supporting up to 64 MB of main memory They are offered in two formats the MicroVAX 3600 or 3900 and the VAX 3600 or VAX 3900 The VAX 3600 3900 is a server system Both the VAX 3600 and 3900 can also be configured as Workstations without graphics support by loading the VCBO2 stub CHARON VAX XX also offers custom versions of the VAX3600 and VAX 3900 that offer emulated memory up to the limit permitted by the CHARON VAX product license see the paragraph on Product Versions below Overview 1 The VAX4000 model 106 is a general purpose mid size VAX supporting the same memory 128MB and peripherals as the 3100 model 96 plus support for Q bus peripherals DHV11 MSCP TMS
50. PDP11 configuration 72 A triple node VAX cluster with multiple iSCSI disks In this example we assume that all three host systems have a iSCSI initiator for example the Microsoft iSCSI initiator and are connected to a common iSCSI server The iSCSI disk server provides 8 virtual disks with R W access on all hosts These disks are configured as PhysicalDrive1 PhysicalDrive8 on each of the host machines Since the storage configuration must be identical on all three nodes it is recommended to describe the storage structure in separate configuration file to be included in each CHARON configuration file and store it on a common Windows network share H load HSD50 DISKS1 dssi_host PAA dssi_node_id 4 set DISKS1 scs_system_id 3238746238 mscp_allocation_class 1 set DISKS1 container 1 PhysicalDrivel1 set DISKS1 container 2 PhysicalDrive2 set DISKS1 container 3 PhysicalDrive3 set DISKS1 container 4 PhysicalDrive4 load HSD50 DISKS2 dssi host PAA dssi node id 5 set DISKS2 scs system id 1256412654 mscp allocation class 2 set DISKS2 container 5 5 NN NPhysicalDrive5 set DISKS2 container 6 PhysicalDrive6 set DISKS2 container 7 PhysicalDrive7 set DISKS2 container 8 PhysicalDrives The following is the CHARON VAX configuration file for the emulated VAX 4000 Model 108 node named VAX001 running on HOST001 set session hw mode1 VAX 4000 Model 108 set session log vax001 10g
51. RD54 disk 170 MB takes about 40 minutes 120MB size of the backup file Restoring this VAX VMS system image to CHARON VAX XX disk image file requires about 6 minutes CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 installation 25 3 CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration At startup CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 assembles a complete virtual VAX PDP11 system by loading the emulated CPU memory system bus and peripheral components based on the information coded in the licensing mechanism Assembling and starting the system is automatic but information is required about the location of the VAX PDP11 disks the Ethernet adapter and other configuration options This information is listed in the configuration file a text file read by CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP171 at startup With this information CHARON VAX XX or CHARON PDP11 starts the execution of the internal diagnostics and subsequently if the diagnostics complete correctly starts the boot sequence from the indicated VAX PDP11 boot disk Start CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 from the desktop or start menu shortcuts created by the installation tool You may also run CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 from Start gt Programs gt CHARON gt CHARON XX v 4 1 xxx gt Utility gt Launcher v1 xx see the chapter on the Launcher in the Utilities section It is also possible to run CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 from command line as follows gt lt name of selected exe file gt lt configurati
52. RON PDP11 as described below If in example 2 two CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 systems are connected as follows On host A load virtual_serial_line chserial TXAO port 5500 host B On host B load virtual_serial_line chaserial TXAO port 5500 host A And both hosts execute CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 the two TXAO lines will connect to each other thus creating a serial cable between the two emulated VAXes PDPs The order in which the instances of CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 are started makes no difference 3 10 2 Link a serial controller port to a host connection Associate each loaded serial port with a CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 host connection instance as follows set lt serial controller instance name gt line lt line number gt lt instance name gt CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 44 Example 1 set quart line 0 TTAO This set command connects the first serial line line 0 of the QUART serial line controller to the CHARON VAX connection instance named TTAO As explained earlier TTAO may be a virtual serial line connected to a terminal emulator Similarly for the UART connect the serial port to the controller in the following way set uart line OPA0 Example 2 set TXA line 5 TTA1 In this example the set command connects the sixth serial line of the previously loaded controller with name TXA to TTA1 TTA1 could be defined for example as a physical serial line connected to a COM port 3 1
53. SCSI DI MI DSSI DJ MJ lt device type gt is of the form LLD or LLLD where L is letter from A through Z and D is decimal number from 0 through 99 If not specified device name is set to DI and device type is selected based on disk size for disk storage elements and to MI and TF86 respectively for tape storage element Initialy not specified geometry N Character This string value with a special format specifies the N 0 7 explicit geometry of the disk storage element with DSSI node id N and MSCP unit number N This parameter is not applicable to tape storage elements The string format is lt X gt lt Y gt lt Z gt where e Xis number of sectors on track e Y is number of tracks on cylinder e Z optional is the number of cylinders on the unit If omitted Z is calculated based on X Y and the total number of sectors on the unit that reflects the size of the disk storage element If this parameter is not set CHARON VAX will configure the geometry based on the most probable disk type Initially not set Applicable only to disk storage elements use io file buffering N Boolean Enables use of host OS O buffering N 0 7 Initially set to NO buffering disabled These parameters can be specified in a SET command CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 64 3 13 2 Connecting storage controller to a virtual DSSI net
54. TLZ04 Example load virtual scsi tape chscsi pka 0 scsi_bus pka scsi id 0 set pka 0 container 0 C Charon tapel vtape set pka 0 container 1 C Charon tape2 vtape If only one LUN is configured the LUN number can be omitted set pka 0 container C Charon tapel vtape set pka 0 media type TLZ08 CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 56 3 12 3 physical scsi device Use physical scsi device to connect any host SCSI device to the emulator physical scsi device has the following parameter Parameter Type container N Character N 0 7 media_type N character N 0 7 geometry N character N 0 7 use io file buffering N boolean N 0 7 removable N boolean N 0 7 Value A string containing the device name to map to the emulator N stands for logical unit number It must begin from O and have no gaps If there is only one logical unit it can be omitted Default is 0 Overrides PRODUCT ID in the default SCSI INQUIRY data Valid values may contain uppercase letters decimal figures spaces Length of string shall not exceed 16 characters If not specified synthetic SCSI INQUIRY data is returned containing PRODUCT ID selected based on disk size Initially left unspecified This string value with a special format specifies the explicit geometry of the disk storage element with DSSI node id N and MSCP unit number N This parameter is not applicable to tape storage elements The string format is
55. The CHARON VAX XX and CHARON PDP171 distribution kits contain release notes and we recommend that you read these notes before installing and using the product The release notes may contain information about changes to the application since the publication of this manual Check the contents of the software distribution kit The packing list specifies the number and contents of your media Be sure to verify the contents of your kit with this information If your kit is damaged or if you find that parts of it are missing please contact Stromasys SA or your sales contact Version 4 1 of CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 is available with HASP license dongles only 2 1 1 Installation overview The CHARON VAX XX and CHARON PDP11 installation kits are provided on a CD or can be downloaded from Stromasys ftp site the link is available on request The installation menu is started by running the InstallShell exe CHARON installation manager in one of the folders on the CD In the appeared dialog review the list of the CHARON products and select the product you have a license for if the product you have a license for is absent in the list please report this problem to the Stromasys SA CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 installation 9 E CHARON Installation Wizard Products n3 Available Products Product Name Description SIROMASKS VIRTUALIZATION C CHARON VAXAXM for Windows v4 1 13402 CHARON YAXAXM product Needs a Hi C CHARON VAXA lt M Pl
56. WN SLOWDOWN_R and SLOW TEST for VAX VMS These utilities are located in the IDLE_VMS_PKG VDISK disk image present in the CHARON VAX XX installation subdirectory VDISK Specify this image in the CHARON VAX XX configuration file boot from the system disk and mount the disk with the following VAX VMS command 5 MOUNT lt device names OVERRIDE IDENTIFICATION Utilities 115 In the root of this disk you will see the following executable files and the COM file designed for the VAX VMS system running on CHARON VAX IDLE EXE Significantly reduces the CHARON VAX XX host CPU usage whenever a VAX VMS system running on CHARON VAX is idle To ensure automatic start up you may include a call to the IDLE EXE in the system start up file IDLE EXE stalls the emulated CPU when it detects an OpenVMS idle condition While Idle is running the emulated CPU consumes on average less host system CPU time It is not recommended to employ IDLE EXE in real time process control environments IDLE EXE cannot be applied to the VAX 6000 emulators IDLE VMS55 EXE IDLE EXE version for VMS 5 5 2 and VMS 5 5 2H4 SHUTDOWN EXE Stops the CHARON VAX XX emulator after 30 seconds after the utility is called These 30 seconds are intended to shutdown VAX VMS running on CHARON VAX XX SHUTDOWN3 EXE Stops CHARON VAX XX after 3 minutes after the utility is called SHUTDOWNS EXE Stops CHARON VAX XX after 5 minutes after the utility is called Note The SHUTDO
57. WNn EXE routines do NOT initiate a shutdown of the VAX VMS system running on CHARON VAX XX only of the emulator itself Establish a VMS shutdown procedure that can complete within the specified time SHUTDOWN_R EXE Cancels a pending request to SHUTDOWN SLOWDOWN EXE Slows down the CHARON VAX XX execution Repeated execution further slows down the execution SLOWDOWN R EXE Restores the normal CHARON VAX XX execution speed SPEEDUP EXE Raises the CHARON VAX XX execution speed by certain amount of steps Only works if SLOWDOWN EXE has been applied SLOW_TEST COM Test demonstrates the impact of the slowdown mechanism To run any of those utilities issue the following command RUN lt name of the utility 4 11 TV30 TV The CHAPI package included to the CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 products supports VT30 TV virtual color television monitor implemented in vt30 tv exe The VT30 TV virtual color television monitor should be connected to a PDP 11 via VT30 H It should be started with desktop color quality equally 8 bit 16 bit or 32 bit Utilities 116 The CHAPI VT30 TV can be started by means of user defined configuration options as follows vt30 tv exe address host vt30 h IP address gt port lt host vt30 h IP ports log lt log file name gt trace_level lt level gt e address IP address for connection to VT30 H e port IP port for connection to VT30 H Example chapi vt30tv exe addres
58. ability and Performance Floppy drive controllers Device Manager cgi IDE ATA ATAPI controllers a amp Storage lt Keyboards Disk Management Mice and other pointing devices Ey Services and Applications Monitors Network adapters Ports COM amp LPT Processors Sound video and game controllers gt Storage controllers ds System devices Universal Serial Bus controllers eal fal E Computer Management Local E System Tools Q Task Scheduler E f Event Viewer ca ga Shared Folders ca ST3250824A ATA Device More Actions Local Users and Groups illa Display adapters o Reliability and Performanc a e Storage z Disk Management ih Services and Applications DVD CD ROM drives Floppy disk drives e4 Floppy drive controllers Gg IDE ATA ATAPI controllers Mice and other pointing devices Monitors Network adapters Ports COM amp LPT Processors Sound video and game controllers nG Storage controllers q amp System devices Universal Serial Bus controllers Utilities 112 Click right mouse button and choose the Property item at the pop up menu appears FEB Computer Management OOOO lolx File Action View Help ss AmO gt Computer Management Local E SWAN Actions E System Tools ik Computer aaa Na Task Scheduler Ela Disk drives E fE Event Viewer iy 513250824A ATA Device More Actions b ga Shared Folders
59. acket Driver Note the difference between MicroVAX Il VAX3600 VAX3900 PDP11 93 PDP11 94 which use DEQNA DELQA DESQA DEUNA DELUA the MicroVAX 3100 which has SGEC adapter and the VAX4000 which may use any of these adapters The network subsystem is built as follows 1 If you are configuring a DEQNA DESQA DELQA DEUNA DELUA first load the desired adapter The CHARON VAX XX 3100 96 98 and 4000 106 108 automatically loads the SGEC thus no LOAD command is required for the SGEC eza LOAD lt device name gt lt logical name gt Example LOAD DELQA DEQNA NIC Load the packet port to connect the SGEC Or the DEQNA DESQA DELQA DEUNA DELUA to the hardware network card load packet port chnetwrk lt logical name gt interface connection lt network connection name gt Example load packet_port chnetwrk NDIS interface connection CHARON Connect the SGEC or the DEQNA DESQA DELQA DEUNA DELUA adapter to the packet_port by setting the interface name set lt device name gt interface lt logical name gt Example set NIC interface NDIS See below for configuration options 3 15 1 SGEC Ethernet Controller The built in SGEC controller emulator eza has the following additional parameters that you may specify with the set command CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 77 Parameter Type Value station address Character station address provides the ability to configure the adapter s permanent address By default
60. age as shown in this example set pka 0 container 0 C Charon Disks system vdisk In this example the notation container 0 is used As zero is the default logical unit number LUN of a container the following statement has the same effect CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 88 set pka O container C Charon Disks system vdisk 3 20 7 Configure the Floppy disk To configure the A floppy disk drive on the host system as the VAX floppy drive DKA100 PKA adapter SCSI address 1 write the following in your configuration file load floppy scsi device chscsi pka 1 scsi_bus pka scsi id 1 PKA 1 is the logical name for this device which is only used as a reference in the configuration file In this case all necessary parameters are specified in a single load command and PKA 1 is not referenced elsewhere SCSI BUS and SCSI ID define the VAX bus and VAX SCSI address of the mapped VAX floppy drive 3 20 8 Configure a SCSI CD ROM drive To configure an IDE CD ROM drive on the host system in this case identified as NACdRom0 on the emulated VAX as SCSI CD ROM drive DKA200 PKA adapter SCSI address 2 configure as follows load atapi scsi device pka 2 scsi_bus pka scsi_id 2 set pka 2 container NN NCdRom0 3 20 9 Configure the default Ethernet Adapter The next step is to configure your emulated Ethernet adapter In this case the default SCEG device that is always present in a VAX PDP11 4000 108 If not present install f
61. ained on this media is proprietary to and embodies the confidential technology of Software Resources International Posession use duplication or dissemination of the software and media is authorized only pursuant to a valid written license from Software Resources International Sample configuration file for HYPERION machines VAX 6000 Model 310 VAX 6000 Model 320 VAX 6000 Model 380 Should be used for education only your own configurations is better to base on most appropriate one from supplied configuration files Their description can be found in CHARON TB Manual in config files Index Specify hw_model prior to any other commands This parameter informs the emulator what type of HYPERION it should emulate All the other commands availability and possibility to use depend on this specification set session hw mode1 VAX 6310 HK H KK FH Comment the following line if you do not want the log to be saved into file change name of the file as well if you d like Each new session of the emulator appends its log to this file therefore it grows bigger with time Sample configuration files 137 set session log vx6k310 log log method append set session log vx6k310 log log method overwrite It is possible to reduce the size of the log file using filtering possibilities 1 Based on message type info warning error 2 Based on repeatetive messages removing You can specify w
62. al line chserial GHI port 10000 Notes on the virtual serial line option 1 Use the combination of parameters port and application as follows to start a a party terminal emulator or similar program CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 43 load virtual serial line chserial TTAO port 10000 application putty exe load OPA0 In this example CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 creates port 10000 and waits for a connection Then it immediately starts Putty exe using the configuration OPAO which will connect to the port 10000 To connect CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 to a port on a specific host use the parameters host and port load virtual serial line chserial TTAO host 192 168 1 1 port 10000 In this example CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 connects to port 10000 of the host with TCP IP address 192 168 1 1 and at the same time it accepts connections on local port 10000 2 It is also possible to specify port on a remote host note that CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP171 always acts as a server The syntax is load virtual serial line chserial TTAO host 192 168 1 1 20000 port 10000 In this example CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 will accept connection on local port 10000 and connects to remote port 20000 of the host 192 168 1 1 Note that examples 2 and 3 above are mainly used for inter CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 communications They are used to connect CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 to an application that communicates to CHARON VAX XX CHA
63. an example assuming that you are adding the emulated CHARON VAX XX system to an existing system set up to receive an additional cluster member 1 Add the cluster licenses to VAX VMS with the LICENSE REGISTER DCL command 2 Rename the CHARON VAX XX disk to any unique name VAX VMS notes 143 SET VOLUME LABEL CHRVAX DUAO S PRODUCT REGISTER VOLUME OVMSVAXSYS DUAO 3 Configure the VMS cluster on CHARON VAX in this example the system name is TST711 S CLUSTER CONFIG Cluster Configuration Procedure Executing on a VAX System DECnet Phase IV is installed on this node This procedure has detected that the LANACP LAN server process is running on this node Do you want LANACP instead of DECnet for cluster boot serving YES NO MAIN MENU 1 ADD TST711 to existing cluster or form a new cluster 2 MAKE a directory structure for a new root on a system disk 3 DELETE a root from a system disk 4 EXIT from this procedure Enter choice 1 Will the LAN be used for cluster communications Y N Y Enter this cluster s group number 4000 Will TST711 be a boot server Y N Will TST711 be a disk server Y N Y Does this cluster contain a quorum disk N N Do you want to run AUTOGEN now Y N 4 Edit the file MODPARAMS DAT Change value of the parameter VOTES to 0 5 Run the AUTOGEN utility S SYSSUPDATE AUTOGEN GETDATA REBOOT VAX VMS notes 144 Reader s Comments We appreciate your comments suggestions crit
64. avy network and or disk I O load CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 This manual has been updated for CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 version 4 1 Note that throughout this manual we use the term CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 as a collective name for the six products CHARON VAX XM for Windows CHARON VAX XM Plus for Windows CHARON VAX XK Plus for Windows CHARON VAX XL for Windows CHARON VAX XL Plus for Windows and CHARON PDP11 for Windows The VAX PDP11 models emulated by these products are CHARON VAX XM Plus includes the MicroVAX Il MicroVAX 3600 MicroVAX 3900 VAXserver 3600 includes both the standard version supporting 64 MB of RAM and a Preface vii custom version supporting up to 128Mb of RAM VAXserver 3900 both standard and special version allowing to configure up to 128Mb of RAM MicroVAX 3100 model 96 a VAX PDP11 4000 model 106 and VAXstation 4000 Model 90 Note that the maximum memory emulated is 128 MB CHARON VAX XK Plus includes the MicroVAX 3100 model 98 the VAX4000 model 108 VAX6310 and custom versions of the VAXserver 3600 and VAXserver 3900 all with a maximum of emulated memory of 256 MB CHARON VAX XL Plus includes the MicroVAX 3100 model 98 the VAX4000 model 108 VAX6310 and custom versions of the VAXserver 3600 and VAXserver 3900 all with a maximum of emulated memory of 512 MB CHARON PDP11 includes the PDP11 93 and the PDP11 94 all with a maximum of emulated memory of 4 MB All of these models are delivere
65. be configured Incorrect configuration in particular non identical specification of emulated HSD50 disks in the DSSI nodes are likely to case data corruption It is advisable to start any field test with implementing the single node and cluster examples that are provided in these notes 3 13 1 CHARON VAX DSSI configuration parameters To connect an emulated VAX 4000 model 106 or 108 node to a virtual DSSI network the CHARON VAX configuration must load at least one emulated SHAC host adapter Emulated VAX 4000 model 106 or 108 has two built in SHAC host adapters are pre loaded with names PAA and PAB corresponding to VMS names So there is no need to load any extra instances of SHAC in configuration file Note that VAX VMS running on an emulated VAX 4000 model 106 or 108 node enumerates the emulated SHAC host adapters and assigns them the VMS internal names PAA and PAB It is recommended for clarity to keep the same naming scheme for emulated SHAC host adapters in the CHARON VAX configuration The SHAC emulation has the following configuration parameters CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 67 Parameter Type port N Numeric N 0 7 host N Character N 0 7 scs node name N Character N 0 7 scs system id N Numeric N 0 7 mscp_allocation_class Numeric N N 0 7 Value An integer value that specifies the TCP IP port number at which the emulated SHAC host adapter listens for connections from another emulated SHAC hos
66. ble to the syntax of CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration files In syntax definitions a horizontal ellipsis indicates that the preceding item can be repeated one or more times Conventions ix 1 Overview 1 1 Introduction The CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 software packages provide an exact mathematical model of VAX PDP11 system hardware They emulate all essential components CPU disks Ethernet adapter memory subsystem required to execute a VAX PDP11 operating system and applications in the same way as on a hardware VAX PDP11 It is a bit confusing CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 are software packages but they emulate VAX PDP11 hardware not a specific VAX PDP11 operating system on top of which you run your VAX PDP11 operating system VAX VMS ULTRIX 32 RSX11 RT11 VAX ELN etc and your VAX PDP11 applications As the emulator executes the same binary VAX PDP11 code as the original hardware your existing VAX PDP11 software will run without any modifications There are no source code conversion costs and the existing application behavior and user interface are preserved When running CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 you have effectively created on its host system a virtual VAX PDP11 system You can use that system as a hardware VAX PDP11 run your copy of VAX VMS RSX11 etc network and or cluster it with other systems all without having to maintain your VAX PDP11 hardware An additional advantage of CHARON VAX XX CHAR
67. cal Area Connection to be used with CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 click the right mouse button and open the Property applet Switch to the General panel and check the list of the installed protocols If you have previous versions of the CHARON s packet protocol drivers uninstall these first To do so select the protocol driver click uninstall and follow the Windows questions Don t forget to reboot the system when complete If you do not have a previous NDIS6 driver installed click the Install button select Protocol from the list of the Network Components and click the Add button In the Select Network Protocol applet click the Have Disk button In the Install from Disk applet select the directory in the CHARON folder under Drivers subdirectory with name NDIS6_6 0 0 xxx for the NDIS6 packet driver The Applet should automatically pick up the sripacket inf file with the driver information Click Ok to install the driver Do not forget to reboot the system after the driver installation You can also install a Virtual Ethernet driver from the directory ndis5_mux This driver creates a virtual Ethernet adapter on your host allowing CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 to use it as if it was a physical Ethernet adapter It is strongly recommended to use the CHARON Network Control Center utility for installation of the Virtual Ethernet driver If it is impossible please follo
68. chscsi pka 0 scsi_bus pka scsi_id 0 set pka 0 container CdRom0 You cannot use the atapi_scsi_burner device for reading but you may define a atapi_scsi_device that points to the same device but with a different scsi id The VAX PDP11 configuration might look like this connect an BURNER to the PKA at SCSI ID 2 load atapi_scsi_burner chscsi pka_2 scsi_bus pka scsi_id 2 set pka 2 container CdRom0 connect an ATAPI CDROM drive to the PKA at SCSI ID 3 load atapi_scsi_device chscsi pka_3 scsi_bus pka scsi_id 3 set pka 3 container CdRom0 Then the VAX can burn through dka200 and compare read through dka300 3 13 DSSI The DSSI storage subsystem for the VAX 4000 Models 106 and 108 emulators is based on the emulation of SHAC host adapters and the ability to route SCS cluster information between the emulated SHAC host adapters of multiple nodes via separate TCP IP links This first implementation was tested with CHARON VAX and can only be used on a 32 bits Windows host system The DSSI storage subsystem is functionally emulated but physically incompatible with DSSI and operates at a much higher throughput than the original hardware Connection to physical DSSI hardware is neither possible nor planned for future releases This version of DSSI emulation for CHARON VAX for Windows supports up to 3 VAX nodes in a virtual DSSI cluster and handles a maximum cluster size of 8 nodes A single virtual DSSI network supports up
69. d as individual executables that may be run as an application from the CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 launcher or run as a Windows Service CHARON Utilities Chapter 4 describes CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 utilities Launcher Service Manager MKdisk SCSI Check Network Control Center MTD HOSTprint vt30tv HASP HLView HASP View and Idle VMS Package Further product information www stromasys com web site provides information about the CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 products including a set of application notes Hewlett Packard provides transfer licenses to maintain the VAX VMS software warranties when CHARON VAX is running on Hewlett Packard computer systems Further information is available at http h71000 www7 hp com openvms sri charon vax emulator html If you have questions or suggestions you can contact us by sending an Email to info stromasys com or contact us by phone at 41 22 794 1070 Preface viii Conventions The following conventions are used in this manual Description The dollar sign or the right angle bracket in interactive examples indicates operating system prompt Bold monospace type in interactive examples indicates typed user input Bold monospace type enclosed by angle brackets indicates command parameters and parameter values Monospace type in interactive examples indicates the output the command responds with In syntax definitions brackets indicate items that are optional This convention is not applica
70. define parameters for that device For example load ROQDX3 RODX3 DUA address 017772150 max n of units 4 For pre loaded devices use the SET command to define parameters In addition use the SET command for any device to simplify complex commands For example load ROQODX3 RODX3 DUA set DUA address 017772150 set DUA max n of units 4 CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 28 Parameters used in a LOAD SET command can be of the following types Boolean Valid values are true false A value of true means that the option is enabled a value false means that the option is disabled Identifier Used to set devices instances and their parameters Character Values of this type are character strings enclosed by quotation marks string parameter Numeric Where numeric data is required it can be entered in the following formats Octal as a number starting with 0 use the symbols 0 7 Decimal a number starting with 1 9 Hexadecimal a number starting with 0x O 9 and a f Example 0x1234abc 3 2 Session Use the SESSION parameter to define the CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 model to be run and how to save the log file The following SESSION parameters are available Parameter log log method log show messages Type Character Character Character Value A string specifying the file name for the CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 log A string specifying whether the previous session log if prese
71. drom_test gt N charon gt charon tb P ch test gt ch test1 gt Show Log CYAX gt So it is possible to start the service Start option stop it Stop option halt Halt option and reset Reset option it It is also possible to view the service log Show Log option Option Show Console is very important if the CHARON service has console configured for terminal emulator like the default PuTTY If the service is set to Automatic mode the console will not appear on system reboot despite the fact that CHARON service will be up and running normally To access the console use the Show Console option 4 3 CHARON Network Control Center CHARON Network Control Center NCC performs the following operations Installation deinstallation upgrade of the NDIS6 Packet and MUX Drivers Configuring physical virtual adapters for CHARON Troubleshooting physical virtual adapters Checking the connection reliability Checking the MAC IP address duplication on LAN Utilities 100 Suggesting the configuration file settings Monitoring the network activity The start dialog of the utility provides a choice of the basic operations that can be performed using this utility CHARON Network Control Center CHARON Network Control Center Introduction page The CHARON Network Control Center designed to manage CHARON networking including Installation de installation of t
72. e Size Numeric A value of N 16 MB with N between 1 and the limits of the license for VAX models Only two values are valid for PDP 11 9x 2 and 4 2Mb and 4Mb In case if value less than 2Mb is specified 2Mb is used and warning message is send to the log in case if value is greater than 4Mb 4Mb is used and warning message is sent to the log file For example VAX emulation set ram size 128 PDP11 emulation set ram size 4 3 7 PDP11 Boot ROM PDP11 Boot ROM has two parameters ext_rom and ext_rom_address It is possible to specify external ROM file and offset within the file to load ROM from This feature allows changing used boot ROM to custom one Use external boot ROM instead of original PDP 11 ROM set ROM ext_rom custom_rom bin set ROM ext rom address 0 The ROM file should contain binary dump 3 8 PDP11 KW11 L and KW11 P Timers The KW11 L timer is used in PDP 11 system emulation It supports a 50Hz 60Hz and 70Hz frequency A time correction mechanism assures corrects for any time slips between the emulated and the host system time The KW11 L frequency can be set in the configuration file as follows set kw11 frequency 50 For PDP 11 configurations this device is loaded automatically CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 36 The KW11 P is a programmable timer for PDP 11 systems The hardware KW11 P timer runs on a 100KHz clock and can be programmed to interrupt at any frequenc
73. e end user Licensee F YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAWE READ THIS SOFTWARE LICENSE 7 CONTRACT AND LIMITED WARRANTY UNDERSTAND IT AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ITS TERMS AND CONDITIONS 1 Grant of License The Licensor grants to the Licensee a non exclusive right to use the licensed functionality of the Software Product hereinafter the SOFTWARE in accordance with the terms contained in this License Unless the contrary is specifically indicated in the product specification this License permits the Licensee to run a single instance of the SOFTWARE on the computer 2 Ownership of Software STROMASYS retains the copyright title and ownership of the SOFTWARE and the written materials regardless of the form or media in or on which the original and other copies may exist 3 Access and Transfers ba G A ee Disagree lt Back Cancel In the following dialog select the directory that will be CHARON base Since this moment this directory will be used to store all the CHARON products the being installed and future ones CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 installation 11 A CHARON Installation Wizard Installation Folder z3 Location of the CHARON installations tree SIROMASKS Choose the installation directory C Program Files CHARON Browse Unless directed elsewhere the installation tool will place the software in the directory C Program Files CHARON if there is enough space on the disk C Otherwis
74. e space on disks or on disk images that can be created with the MKDISK utility The installation also creates a folder named VDISK containing empty disk images in zipped form 2 2 2 Using a physical disk drive You can remove a SCSI disk from your VAX PDP11 system and reconnect it to a SCSI adapter in your Windows system Assign the SCSI disk in the CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration file to a disk controller and it becomes a disk drive in the CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 If the SCSI disk is a bootable VAX VMS or RSX11 RT11 disk you can boot the corresponding replacement VAX PDP11 model from it Note As the CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 emulator is based on certain models of VAX PDP11 there are certain limitations imposed by VMS For instance like the hardware VAX system the emulated MicroVAX 3100 model 96 and 98 VAX 4000 Model 106 and 108 need VMS version 5 5 2 or later 2 2 3 Using a tape CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 support the connection of a SCSI tape drive to a SCSI adapter in your Windows system Assign the tape drive in the CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP171 configuration file to operate the tape drive as usual by the VAX PDP11 operating system This way you can boot from standalone tape to restore your system backup CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 installation 24 For Qbus VAXBI systems it is also possible to use tape images previously created using physical tapes with the MTD utility See the CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 Utiliti
75. e the installation directory will be located at one of other available drives in this case it will look like lt X gt CHARON where X is the first drive containing enough space for the installation It is possible to change the CHARON base if it is required using the Browse button or by typing the desired path in the edit box Press Next once the directory is set The procedure will install the driver for the HASP license key and several redistributives required for normal functioning of CHARON VAX XX or CHARON PDP11 Note that if you are upgrading from an older version of CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 your license may not be recognized on CHARON emulators starting Uninstall the HASP Hardlock driver Control panel gt Add Remove programs and install a fresh version from Sentinel web site Remove the CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 Emulator using the CHARON installation wizard called from the Add Remove Programs applet and the HASP Hardlock device driver using the standard Windows procedure Start gt Settings gt Control Panel gt Add Remove programs CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP 11 installation 12 2 1 2 Installing the HASP license key drivers CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 for Windows are protected with a HASP USB license key You must use a computer system with a free and properly installed USB port as without the license key the software cannot be installed or run The HASP device driver must be installed as the fi
76. ee 5 m A Local Users and Groupe ey ng ST3250824A ATA Device Properties 2 x Reliability and Performanc oS igen Policies Volumes Date Details A Device Manager cha E KG Storage Hes 132508244 ATA Device f Disk Management ta y m E Services and Applications na ba Device type Disk H evice type rives KY Manufacturer Standard disk drives Location Location 0 Channel O Target O Lun 0 s Location 0 Channel 0 Target 0 Lun 0 Device status This device is working properly a The information from Location field to be used for selected device configuration 4 8 MTD utility The MTD utility allows creating CHARON tape image from a physical tape and writing tape image to a physical tape It is a command line utility Usage is the following gt mtd lt tape device name gt lt tape container name gt options Where the options are log lt file name gt create the execution log in the file file name reads lt number gt a number of attempts to read a damaged data bock ignore ignore bad blocks and continue processing w o interruption Example gt mtd TapeO C TapeImages tapel vtape log tapel txt reads 10 ignore Using the following syntax it is possible to write a content of a tape container to a physical tape Utilities 113 gt mtd lt tape container name gt lt tape device name gt Example gt mtd C TapeImages
77. el 106 or 108 node these storage elements appear as DSSI disks DIAN or DSSI TF86 tapes MIAN Possible values of the parameter are strings in one of the following forms 1 PhysicalDrive X where X is 0 1 for accessing non removable physical disk drives 2 NACdRom X where X is 0 1 for accessing compact disk drives read only 3 Tape X where X is 0 1 for accessing physical tape drives 4 NVL where L is A B for accessing removable disk drives floppies some optical media 5 lt path name gt lt file name gt vdisk for accessing CHARON disk images or CHARON virtual disks 6 lt path name gt lt file name gt dsk for accessing CHARON disk images or CHARON virtual disks 7 lt path name gt lt file name gt vtape for accessing CHARON tape images or CHARON virtual tapes 8 lt path name gt lt file name gt mtd for accessing CHARON tape images or CHARON virtual tapes This parameter is initially not set thus creating NO storage elements on the bus with corresponding DSSI node id CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 63 Parameter Type Value media type N Character Overrides default automatically determined MSCP media N 0 7 type of the device Syntax lt device name gt lt device type gt Where lt device name gt is one of DU MU DK Mk
78. ere X is 0 1 for accessing compact disk drives read only 3 Tape X where X is 0 1 for accessing physical tape drives 4 NVL where L is A B for accessing removable disk drives floppies some optical media 5 lt path name gt lt file name gt vdisk for accessing CHARON disk images or CHARON virtual disks 6 lt path name gt lt file name gt dsk for accessing CHARON disk images or CHARON virtual disks 7 lt path name gt lt file name gt vtape for accessing CHARON tape images or CHARON virtual tapes 8 lt path name gt lt file name gt mtd for accessing CHARON tape images or CHARON virtual tapes This parameter is initially not set thus creating NO storage elements on the controller CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 67 Parameter Type media type N Character N 0 9999 geometry N Character N 0 9999 use io file buffering N Boolean N 0 9999 The following example configures default DSSI network address of 5 load HSD50 DISKS dssi_host Configuration Example 1 Value Overrides default automatically determined MSCP media type of the device Syntax lt device name gt lt device type gt Where lt device name gt is one of DU MU DK Mk SCSI DI MI DSSI DJ MJ lt device type gt is of the form LLD or LLLD
79. es and interconnects manual for details Older tape drives that do not have a Windows driver can still work with the CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 See SCSI and T MSCP chapters and the utility SCSI check for details Note that the reliability of a physical tape connection depends on factors like SCSI controller type tape drive model and host CPU speed Tape connections are not guaranteed to work in all cases 2 2 4 The VAX ELN transfer disk The CHARON VAX installation CD contains a VAXELN disk image with utilities to copy VAX VMS system disk contents via DECnet from a VAX system on the network Before the disk image copy procedure is initiated check the size of the VAX VMS system disk in order to be sure that there is enough free space for the image backup save set file on your CHARON VAX XX system 1 Login from the CHARON VAX system running the VAXELN system to the hardware VAX system from which the VMS system disk image is to be copied SET HOST lt VAX DECnet address gt 2 On the hardware VAX backup the system disk image to a file on VAXELN FAL BACKUP IMAGE LOG DUA0 lt CHARON VAX DECnet address gt VAX_IMAGE BCK SAV 3 Once the disk image backup is completed the user can restart CHARON VAX using the VAXELN stand alone backup BOOT B0000000 DUAO Restore the VAX VMS system disk from the stand alone backup BACKUP IMAGE LOG DKAO 000000 VAX_IMAGE BCK SAV DKA1 Timing estimation A network backup 10 Mbps of a VAX2000
80. figuration file looks like this the character is the comment character The CHARON VAX model set session hw mode1 VAX 4000 Model 108 Logs and system parameters set toy container charon dat set rom container charon rom set session log C Logs charon log log_method append set cpu ace_mode false set ram size 256 Console load virtual_serial_line chserial OPAO port 10003 application putty exe load OPA0 set quart line 3 0PA0 SCSI system disk load virtual scsi disk chscsi pka 0 scsi_bus pka scsi id 0 set pka 0 container C Charon Disks system vdisk SCSI Floppy disk load floppy scsi device chscsi pka 1 scsi_bus pka scsi id 1 ATAPI CDROM as SCSI device load atapi scsi device chscsi pka 2 scsi_bus pka scsi_id 2 set pka 2 container CdRom0 Network on SGEC load packet port chnetwrk eza 0 interface connection CHARON set eza interface eza 0 RODX3 disk controller on Qbus load RQDX3 RQDX3 DUA set DUA container 0 C Charon Disks user vdisk DHQ11 serial line controller on Qbus load DHQ11 DHV11 TXA load physical_serial_line chserial TXAO line COM1 set TXA line 0 TXAO DELOA Ethernet Adapter on Qbus load DELQA DEQNA XQA load packet port chnetwrk XQAO interface connection CHARON2 set XQA interface XQA0 3 21 Starting the sample configuration Save your configuration file under the CHARON VAX XX installation directory in subdirectory Build XXX Use the default configuration file to star
81. figuration makes the CHARON Launcher a useful tool for setting up and troubleshooting CHARON instances You can prepare and send a problem report file to your support team by clicking on the Send Problem report button Complete the message by filling in the blanks in the draft message generated by CHARON You can configure CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 as a Windows service by pressing the button Install Update service The following dialog is displayed fa Service Install Dialog el New Service Name charor Installed CHARON products MicroVAX 3100 Model 98 Configuration file name C Program Files4CHARON Build 134024x864mv3k198 cfg Install Cancel Enter the desired service name in New Service Name and press the Install button Note that the name of the service cannot have spaces If the service already exists the following dialog is displayed Update Install service dialog AH Installed service for selected product detected Choose the action to continue Update exisiting service Install new service If Install new service button is pressed the CHARON Launcher displays the dialog for creating new service shown above Otherwise the following dialog is displayed Utilities 94 Service Update Dialog Installed services list charon X Installed CHARON product MicroVAX 3100 Model 98 Configuration file name C Program Files CH amp RON Build_13402 x86
82. g item on the Service Management submenu sets the start and if necessary stop time of a selected service It invokes the following dialogue Utilities 97 Schedule dialog nx Choose date time Date Time 8 25 2011 Gr 10 37 02 AM 2 Service name Schedule date Action charon Thu Aug 25 10 36 02 2011 to be Started Set Stop Remove OK Cancel Press the Set start or Set Stop buttons to apply the date and time To remove any schedule date choose it and press the Remove button Note that all scheduled tasks proceed only if the CHARON Service manager runs No scheduled information is stored in the system registry When the CHARON service manager restarts the scheduled task queue will be empty 5 Security Setting also available through the corresponding item on the Service Management submenu This function locks the computer after a selected amount of time bond dialog Security settings 30 min x Cancel Enter the Windows User name password combination in the standard Windows box to regain access By default this function is disabled Utilities 98 6 The Mail Problem Report also available through the mail item on the Service Management submenu automatically formats a problem report file to being sending at the support team for investigation Print the active document opens up the standard printer dialogue to print the right hand panel of the application Use the submenu Se
83. greed to STROMASYS Terms and Conditions for Softa 2011 08 25 10 33 43 0000009D License info 2011 08 25 10 33 43 0000009D CHARON product code CHVAX 221 xF W1 2011 08 25 10 33 43 0000009D Licensed to Stromasys MSC 2011 08 25 10 33 43 0000009D Date limited license limited to 17 Jan 2012 2011 08 25 10 33 43 0000009D Warning setting the host system date back will permanently invalidate the license key 2011 08 25 10 33 43 D000009D License KEY driver is installed as akshasp and is running 2011 08 25 10 33 43 0000009D Executable systern32 DRIVERS akshasp sys version 4 25 2011 08 25 10 33 43 00000097 OS Environment Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Edition 32 bit Build 7600 2011 08 25 10 33 43 00000098 Host CPU Intel R Xeon TM CPU 2 80GHz Genuinelntel x86 Family 15 Model 2 Ste 2011 08 25 10 33 43 00000099 Host Memory 4096Mb 2011 08 25 10 33 43 00000132 Advanced CPU Emulation ACE disabled 2011 08 25 10 33 43 0000032C MicroVAX 3100 Model 98 started 2011 08 25 10 33 58 0000032D Micro V29 3100 Model 98 stop request received 2011 08 25 10 33 58 0000032E Stopped 2011 08 25 10 33 58 00000244 Logging stopped 4 m For Help press F1 NUM In the Services Manager the tree structure on the left shows all CHARON services installed on the host system Initially the right hand panel displays the product license key information Clicking on a service name shows the most recent event log display for this service in the righ
84. haracter On assert the RTS Request To Send signal Off clear the RTS signal default DTR assert the RTS signal as soon as the DTR signal is asserted DSR lt line gt Character On always reports the DSR signal asserted Off always reports the DSR signal deasserted DSR use the DSR signal of the physical serial line if configured CD DCD RLSD use the CD carrier detect signal of the physical serial line if configured Note this parameter is applicable only for line 2 of the QUART CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 37 Communication lt line gt Character ASCII for connection to terminals default BINARY for serial lines carrying binary packet protocols which are used mainly for communicating with PLCs Line lt line gt Identifier This parameter is used to connect a particular serial line interface to the controller See below for details All the values in this table are case insensitive Example set QUART rts 2 DTR set QUART dsr 2 0n set QUART communication 1 binary Note that the UART QUART does not allow applications to manipulate RTS directly as there are no controlling bits in the registers Note that line 2 of the QUART is the only one which might be used for connecting modems Therefore the DSR parameter for that line i e dsr 2 is internally set to the appropriate value CD but can be changed from the configuration file B
85. hardware will eventually wear out fall apart burn up or simply stand in the way its software can remain to be of significant value to its users However application migration to another system architecture is not trivial and might even be impossible if no source code is available Modern computer systems can do complex tasks much faster than their ancestors of three decades ago That makes it feasible to design a very precise software model of computer hardware in such a way that it can execute the original binary code but on a new host platform CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 provide such a model providing models of various PDP11 VAX PDP11 and MicroVAX systems supporting Q bus systems and SCSI systems with a range of peripheral devices in a selection of VAX PDP11 models supporting up to 512 MB VAX PDP11 memory The peripherals include serial lines high performance SCSI disks SCSI tapes disk images SCSI or ATAPI CD ROM support Ethernet adapters and 3 5 inch floppy support CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 are designed to replace mid range and large single CPU VAX PDP11 systems and clusters with Windows servers as well as PDP11 systems like PDP11 93 and PDP11 94 There is no need to modify convert or upgrade your existing VAX VMS or RSX11 RT11 operating system or VAX PDP11 applications With its high performance CPU option and the ability to form VMS clusters it is an efficient replacement product for departmental VAX PDP11 servers that handle a he
86. he controller Possible values are 4 9999 Default is 9999 Specifies the location of the disk container It can be either the name of a VDISK DSK file or the name of a physical disk NAPhysicalDriveX for local fixed disks IDE SCSI SATA CdRomxX or lt Letter gt for CD ROM DVD drives IDE SCSI MA or NAB or whatever for floppy drives 1 2 1 44 2 88MB Direct SCSI addressing is NOT supported Overrides default automatically determined MSCP media type of the device Syntax lt device name gt lt device type gt Where lt device name gt is one of DU DK SCSI DI DSSI DJ lt device type gt is of the form LLD or LLLD where L is letter from A through Z and D is decimal number from 0 through 99 If not specified device name is set to DU and device type is selected based on disk size Initialy not specified CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 47 Parameter Type Value geometry N Character This string value with a special format specifies the N 0 9999 explicit geometry of the disk storage element with DSSI node id N and MSCP unit number N This parameter is not applicable to tape storage elements The string format is lt X gt lt Y gt lt Z gt where e X is number of sectors on track e Y is number of tracks on cylinder e Z optional is the number of cylinders on t
87. he CHARON network drivers Configuring physical virtual adapters to be used by the CHARON Host system Managing CHARON Virtual network Troubleshooting the physical virtual adapter setup Troubleshooting the CHARON Virtual network setup Checking the connection reliability Checking that adapter supports MAC address change Checking for the MAC address duplication on the LAN Checking for the IP address duplication on the LAN Suggesting the configuration file settings Monitoring NIC activity NDIS5 driver v 5 3 0 or later should be installed and CHARON VAX running to enable Monitor feature Select the desired function and click Next button for continue Please select the action to continue Aa O O sa de Configure NIC Troubleshoot NIC designated for CHARON Monitor CHARON NIC activity Lo Sapa Cancel Each dialog of the Network Control Center contains detailed information on available options and actions that can be done on each particular page Once Install Upgrade is selected and the Next button is pressed the following dialog specifies the action desired and the path to the driver if required Once the option is selected and the drivers are specified if needed press the Next button to proceed Utilities 707 CHARON Network Control Center CHARON Network Control Center Installation U parade page U
88. he emulator s DKB600 DKB601 to host s floppy disk drives A B if any load ndis5 chpack port EZAO interface disabled load ndis5 chpack port EZAO interface connection lt connection name gt Sample configuration files 124 Load optional DHW42 AA or DHW42 BA or DHW42 CA serial line controller C DAL Only one instance of DHW42AA BA CA can be loaded load DHW42AA DHV11 TXA load DHW42BA DHV11 TXA load DHW42CA DHV11 TXA load physical serial line chserial TXAO line COMn load virtual serial line chserial TXAO port 10010 load virtual serial line chserial TXAO port 10010 application txa0 ht set TXA line 0 TXAO load physical serial line chserial TXA1 line COMn load virtual serial line chserial TXA1 port 10011 load virtual serial line chserial TXA1 port 10011 application txal ht set TXA line 1 TXA1 load physical serial line chserial TXA2 line COMn load virtual serial line chserial TXA2 port 10012 load virtual serial line chserial TXA2 port 10012 application txa2 ht set TXA line 2 TXA2 load physical serial line chserial TXA3 line COMn load virtual serial line chserial TXA3 port 10013 load virtual serial line chserial TXA3 port 10013 application txa3 ht set TXA line 3 TXA3 load physical serial line chserial TXA4 line COMn load virtual serial line chserial TXA4 port 10014 load virtual serial line chserial TXA4 port 10014 application
89. he unit If omitted Z is calculated based on X Y and the total number of sectors on the unit that reflects the size of the disk storage element If this parameter is not set CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 will configure the geometry based on the most probable disk type use io file buffering N Boolean Enables use of host OS O buffering N 0 9999 Initially set to NO buffering disabled Use the ADDRESS parameter if loading several instances of RQDX3 The ADDRESS parameter value must be unique for every instance of the RQDX3 See the Application Note 32 on how to configure addresses on a Qbus Examples load RQDX3 DUA address 017772150 max_n of units 4 set DUA container 0 C charon disks rx23 vdisk set DUA container 1 PhysicalDrivel load RQDX3 DUB address 017760334 set DUB container 5 CdRom0 In the above example in case of CHARON VAX the rx23 vdisk will be seen in VMS as DUAO the PhysicalDrive1 as DUA1 and the CD Rom will be seen as DUB5 Or alternatively load RQDX3 DIA address 017772150 max n of units 4 set DIA container 0 C charon disks rx23 vdisk set DIA media_type 0 dssi set DIA container 1 PhysicalDrivel set DIA media_type 1 dssi CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 48 In the above example in case of CHARON VAX the rx23 vdisk will be seen in VMS as DIAO the PhysicalDrive1 as DIA1 3 11 2 The TQK50 TMSCP QBUS Controller The CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 QBUS
90. hich type of messages should be logged using option log show messages which is a string option containing mentioned above message types delimited by comma Default is all which means to log all existing message types You can specify that repeatetive messages should be filtered out using log repeat filter on off option Default value is off The same as default all set session log show messages info warning error Show only information and error messages set session log show messages info error Show only error messages set session log show messages error Filter repeatetive messages out set session log repeat filter on The following lines tell the emulator where to preserve NVRAM content It will keep the current time of the emulated VAX when you do not run the emulator and console parameters such as default boot device Note both storages must be enabled for preserving NVRAM state set toy container charon dat set eeprom container charon rom Sample configuration files 132 Specify the size of RAM default 512MB Remember that the dongle license might limit the maximum amount of memory set ram size 32 set ram size 64 set ram size 128 set ram size 256 set ram size 512 Now assign console built in serial line Currently the emulator offers three possible ways using serial lines First of them is connection to COM ports
91. ical name gt interface connection lt network connection name gt The following additional packet_port parameters can also be specified Parameters Type Value port enable mac addr change Boolean If true is specified CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 set the appropriate Ethernet address automatically If false is specified set the Ethernet address manually with the NETSETUP utility The default value is true port ignore on rx Numeric port ignore on rx provides the ability to shutdown the port when the sequential errors on receive exceeds the specified number Typically errors on receive indicate serious unrecoverable errors By default the value is set to the value of the port pending rx number parameter Value of 0 means infinite port retry on tx Numeric port retry on tx controls the number of times the port attempt to transmit the packet until giving up By default the value is 3 Increasing this value might introduce problems in carrier loosing logic because not all NIC drivers support carrier status query Typically you do not need to increase the value port pending rx number Numeric port pending rx number sets the number of pending receive buffers The default value is 63 The maximum value allowed by CHARON Protocol Driver NDIS6 is 195 You may want to increase the port pending rx number when you have very busy networking and experience problems like losing connections not related to the carrier los
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93. iled description of the n of io cpus configuration name and affinity parameters 2 1 11 Repairing and removing CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 Before removing or repairing CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 products please make sure that 1 All the running CHARON services are stopped 2 The CHARON Service Manager utility is stopped Use its system tray icon to stop the application To repair or remove CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 products run the installation procedure again or follow the corresponding link in the Add Remove Programs applet in this case the installation procedure may ask to provide the CHARON media or specify a path to it The following dialog will appear A CHARON Installation Wizard Installation Mode 23 Installation options SIROMASNS C Install some absent components or new products Remove components or products Repair components or products Choose Install some absent components or new products if some modification of the existing installation is required Remove components or products for de installation of some CHARON products and Repair components or products for repairing Press Next CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 installation 27 In case of the first option please follow the description on the CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 installation Note that the CHARON installation procedure will not re install any components if they have been already insta
94. inimal in most cases Physical SCSI disks used by CHARON VAX XX must not contain a file system known to the Windows operating system otherwise the drive will not be available for use in CHARON VAX XX With the utility Disk Management Control Panel Administrative Tools Computer Management Disk Management you can verify that Windows has not allocated the disks If they do use the disk management tool to delete the partition i e remove the Windows file system and thus release the disk Firstly load a SCSI device with the load command At the same time specify the name of the device instance the emulated SCSI bus to connect the device to and the SCSI identifier of the CHARON VAX XX device Parameter Type Value scsi_bus Identifier Name of emulated SCSI disk controller pka or pkb scsi_id Numeric A value between 0 and 7 ID number of the emulated SCSI device The SCSI adapter is preloaded with address 7 If required set it to another value in the range 0 7 from the SRM console Note that there is no direct correspondence between the host hardware SCSI ID and these CHARON VAX XX SCSI addresses Set the correspondence between physical SCSI addresses on the host system and the CHARON VAX XX SCSI bus ID in the configuration file Devices are loaded as follows load lt instance type gt lt DLL name gt lt instance name gt scsi_bus lt bus name gt scsi_id lt number gt Note that CHARON VAX XX has only one preloaded SCSI adapter with
95. ion 1 C con VII HASP RUS utility version 5 0 m Description PRODUCT NAME CHARON VAXZXL Plus for Windows v4 1 13402 PRODUCT DESCRIPTION CHARON VAXAXL Plus product Needs a HASP key Only insert the key when requested to do so Desktop Icon B 7 Space Requirements This selection 80 58 Mb Total space 80 58 Mb Note the Desktop Icon setting for the emulator that should be default one It means that its shortcut will be placed at the desktop Once the selection review is done press Next to proceed with the executables installation 2 1 4 Installing the CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 executables See the following dialog to understand the phase of the product s installation CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 installation 14 A CHARON Installation Wizard Installation Progress z3 SIROMASKS Creating start menu entry for vxdk108 exe The installation procedure may ask a confirmation to replace certain files if they already persist on the system in the CHARON base folder and have later date of modification than the files to be installed The options are Yes No or Yes to All No to All 2 1 5 Network installation CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 require a dedicated Ethernet adapter Since in principle your Windows host system should be dedicated to CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 you do not need to install an additional adapter as you can use the same adapter for occa
96. irst the CHARON NDIS6 packet driver on the host system Follow the description in the chapter on network installation The connection name used for CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 must be entered in the configuration file Open Network connections and copy the connection name to the clipboard to paste it in the configuration command If the clipboard contains CHARON connection enter the following in your configuration file load packet port chnetwrk eza 0 interface connection CHARON and connect the packet port to the built in SGEC by defining set eza interface eza 0 For the EZA device it is not strictly required to specify the DLL name of the Ethernet emulator component chnetwrk dll The SCEG controller is automatically loaded with the name EZA and all required DLLs for networking CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 89 3 20 10 Configure the RQDX3 disk controller To load the RQDX3 disk controller use the following syntax load RQDX3 RQDX3 DUA Note that the name of the rqdx3 dll that contains the RADX3 controller model is not strictly required here since its name is the same as the disk controller name As the next step specify the host disks or disk images that are going to represent VAX PDP11 disks In our example we have a single VAX disk mapped to a host file set DUA container 0 C Charon Disks user vdisk 3 20 11 The DHQ11 serial line controller To configure the DHQ11 serial line controller first load the c
97. ity presents you with a list of disk drives found on your system SCSI port verification for CHARON BAX Device class Alidives y Service Controller B Id Name LUN Device path Description CHARO flpydisk FDC WMA Floppy disk drive Emulator printer Microsoft XPS Document Printer device Emulator printer Samsung 5CX 5x30 Serie Printer device Emulator printer Ny ASamsung ML 2050 PELE Printer device Emulator printer Ny APriner near me Printer device Emulator printer Microsoft XPS Document Printer device Emulator printer Ny ADigital PrintServer 17 600 Printer device Emulator cdrom 0 0 1 Optiarc DYD RWAD 71734 0 MACdRom0 SCSI cdrom drive Unusable dsk 1 0 0 ST3150034A5 O WAPhysicalDrive0 Disk dive Devicec lt il gt Unusable device Emulator device string Device contains Windows system Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 Build 2600 KIRILL 27 mona 2011 r 11 16 20 The green color indicates the devices which are not allocated by the host operating system thus can be used in the CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 environment It is possible to choose a specific device class from the following list Disk drives Tape drives CD ROM drives Floppy disk drives Printers Unknown devices You can select All drives to inspect your host system Note that the current version of SCSI Check does not correctly report iSCSI devices Utilities 1
98. l lines First of them is connection to COM ports via physical serial line The second is to attach a third party terminal emulator virtual serial line Once desired way of connection is chosen and the corresponding line is uncommented connect it to preloaded controller QUART by chosing the QUART line number in square brackets to connect the interface to See OPAO below for example KH H H H H H load physical_serial_line chserial TTAO line COMn load virtual_serial_line chserial TTAO port 10000 load virtual_serial_line chserial TTAO port 10000 application tta0 ht load virtual_serial_line chserial TTAO port 10000 application putty exe load TTAO set quart line 0 TTAO load physical_serial_line chserial TTA1 line COM1 load virtual_serial_line chserial TTA1 port 10001 load virtual_serial_line chserial TTA1 port 10001 application ttal ht load virtual_serial_line chserial TTA1 port 10001 application putty exe load TTA1 set quart line 1 TTA1 load physical_serial_line chserial TTA2 line COM2 load virtual_serial_line chserial TTA2 port 10002 load virtual_serial_line chserial TTA2 port 10002 application tta2 ht Sample configuration files 127 load virtual serial line chserial TTA2 port 10002 application putty exe load TTA2 set quart line 2 TTA2 load physical serial line chserial OPAO line COM3 load virtual serial line chserial OPA0 port 10003 load vir
99. l_serial_line chserial DEF set DEF break on Ctr1 P Break line COM2 set quart line 3 DEF Provided that the physical serial line connects a terminal to CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 pressing the Break button on the terminal s keyboard will generate a SPACE condition on the serial line Setting the break_on parameter value to Break in the configuration file will trigger the HALT Reset condition in CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 upon detection of the SPACE condition on the associated COM port Set the break on parameter value to Ctrl P to trigger the HALT condition in the emulated VAX PDP11 upon reception of Ctrl P character ASCII code 10 hex The break on parameter is ignored for all the lines except the console line Connect via TCP IP Use the CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 connection type virtual serial line to prepare for a connection to a 3 party terminal emulator or other incoming connections over TCP IP There are the following set options CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 42 Parameter host port port application break on stop on Example Type Character Numeric Character Character Character Value The TCP IP host name to connect to and optional the number of the remote port Specifies the TCP IP port on which CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 requests connection Note that if the host parameter is present and no port parameter is specified CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP
100. lled by the other CHARON products The following dialog will appear in case of Remove and Repair choice A CHARON Installation Wizard Products Available Products Product Name SIROMASKS VIRTUALIZATION eee eB ts vies eee CHSRON YVAXZ lt L Plus product Needs a l lt Back Cancel Select the whole products to process all its components or just press Next to select required components The following dialog will appear CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 installation 22 A CHARON Installation Wizard The Components Product Components CHARON YAXAXL Plus for Windows v4 1 ME Drivers ME BCI ZXOX driver 2 0 1 12400 ME DCI 1100 driver v2 0 1 12400 STROMASYS VIRTUALIZATION ME PPT driver v2 1 0 12400 El Vege Emulators Meg MicroVAX3100 Model 98 emulator Mg VAX 4000 Model 108 emulator Mg VAX 6310 emulator aN Material Vie CHAPI version 5 17 13402 i vig Idle VMS package version 2 0 El MO Utilities CHARON Launcher version 1 23 CHARON Service Manager versioi HASP View Version 1 0 2 0 HASP_HL_VIEW utility version 1 C ev IVES HASP RUS utility version 5 0 4 Ii ME NDI56 Packet Driver version 6 2 ME Virtual network adapter driver versi Mig VAXserver 3600 emulator 256Mb Mle VAXserver 3900 emulator 256Mb pa sg Description PRODUCT NAME CHARON VAXZXL Plus for Windows v4 1 13402 PRODUCT DESCRIPTION CHARON VAXAXL Plus product
101. lt X gt lt Y gt lt Z gt where e Xis number of sectors on track e Y is number of tracks on cylinder e Z optional is the number of cylinders on the unit If omitted Z is calculated based on X Y and the total number of sectors on the unit that reflects the size of the disk storage element If this parameter is not set CHARON VAX will configure the geometry based on the most probable disk type Enables use of host OS I O buffering Initially set to NO buffering disabled Enables the logical unit to appear as removable SCSI disk drive Initially set to NO fixed non removable Find the number of a SCSI disk device from the Device Manager or from the SCSI Check utility The syntax for SCSI disks is the following load physical scsi device chscsi pka 0 scsi_bus pka scsi id 0 CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 57 set pka 0 container PhysicalDrive4 This example will associate the 4 unallocated SCSI drive in Windows with device pka 0 CHARON VAX XX supports SCSI CD ROM drives The SCSI CD ROM drives appear in the Windows operating system as CdRom0 CdRom1 etc Use these names in the configuration file to attach the SCSI controller to the SCSI CD ROM drive of the host computer For example set pka O container CdRom0 CHARON VAX XX also supports SCSI tapes All SCSI tape devices appear in the Windows operating system as Tape0d Tape1 etc
102. mouse gives 2 options Stop Emulator 4 Exit and Halt Reset which is the analogue of the HALT button on a physical VAX PDP11 Stop Emulator amp Exit is disabled if CHARON VAX XX or CHARON PDP11 is running as a service See the Utilities Chapter for further details on configuring installing running and managing CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 3 1 Configuration file parameters In a CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration file the use the LOAD command as follows to add devices LOAD lt device name gt lt DLL name gt lt logical name gt Where lt device name gt defines the device to load lt DLL name gt defines the DLL for that device and lt logical name gt defines a name for this device for use within the configuration file Note that the logical name used in the CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 sample configuration files may be similar to the VMS RSX11 RT11 name of the device but it is not visible to VMS RSX11 RT11 For example load DHQ11 DHV11 TXA In this example an instance of the serial line controller DHQ11 with the logical name TXA is loaded from the DLL DHV11 DLL Depending on the VAX PDP11 model some devices are pre loaded by CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 For example the UART console port MicroVAX 3600 PDP11 93 PDP11 94 the QUART console port MicroVAX 3100 the PKA SCSI controller MicroVAX 3100 and the EZA Ethernet adapter MicroVAX 3100 Pre loaded devices do not need a LOAD command The LOAD command may also
103. mv3k198 cFg Update Cancel Press Update button Once the Service Update Dialog has disappeared press Back button in the Update Install Service Dialog The Launcher will update the service and inform if the service was successfully updated Use the Copy selection to clipboard button to copy selected lines of the log to the clipboard Utilities 95 4 2 CHARON Service Manager CHARON Service Manager manages CHARON services i e VAX PDP11 instances configured as Windows services available on your computer The utility starts automatically on login to the host system and creates an icon in the system tray Click on the icon to invoke the CHARON Service Manager main window If the utility is not running it is possible to start it directly from the tray icon with the right click and the Start button B charon CHARON Service Manager Sas Service Management View Help Ro x x B S ae B XEON4WAYW Date Message ID Message text 2011 08 25 10 33 43 40001B7C charon running 2011 08 25 10 33 58 40001B7C charon stopped 2011 08 25 10 33 43 00000249 Logging started 2011 08 25 10 33 43 0000032B Start request received 2011 08 25 10 33 43 0000024D STROMASYS SA previously Software Resources International C 2009 2011 2011 08 25 10 33 43 00000350 CHARON VA0GXL MicroVAX 3100 Model 98 V 4 1 B 13402 Aug 24 2011 1000 809 510 2011 08 25 10 33 43 00000336 The end user of this software has a
104. n a single host system or cluster Possession use or copying of the software described in this publication is authorized only pursuant to a valid written license Stromasys SA makes no representations that the use of the CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 software as described in this publication will not infringe on existing or future patent rights nor do the descriptions contained in this publication imply the granting of licenses to make use or sell equipment or software in accordance with the description Trademarks The CHARON name with logo is a trademark of Stromasys SA VAX PDP11 Q bus VMS and OpenVMS are trademarks of The Hewlett Packard Company Windows is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries licensed exclusively through Microsoft Corporation USA Pentium is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries licensed exclusively through Intel Corporation USA Athlon is a registered trademark of Advanced Micro Devices All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective holders Life support applications The CHARON products from Stromasys SA are not designed for use in systems where malfunction of a CHARON product can reasonably be expected to result in a personal injury Stromasys customers using or selling our CHARON products for use in such applications do so at their own risk and agree to fully indemnify Stromasys SA for any damages resulting from such imprope
105. n a specific format This file must be used in combination with the frequency parameter to specify the original frequency of the PDP 11 hardware that is emulated If the specified file does not exist the file is created with the original instruction timings this is a convenient way to get a template for further experiments Below are some configuration examples for these parameters Default instruction timings for PDP 11 93 are used It is assumed that the emulated CPU frequency is 15Mhz set cpu 0 frequency 15 instruction_time_table default Instruction timings are taken fron a file It is assumed that emulated CPU frequency is 15Mhz set cpu 0 frequency 15 instruction time table file mypdp ins Instruction timings are taken from the default settings But as it set to 0 the frequency mechanism is switched off Hence the system will run at maximum speed set cpu 0 frequency 0 instruction time table default Same as above maximum speed of emulation set cpu 0 frequency 15 instruction time table off CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 35 Speed of emulation approximates a 15 MHz PDP 11 93 set cpu 0 frequency 15 instruction time table default 3 6 Setting memory size The maximum amount of memory depends on the CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 license and type of the emulator used Assign the required memory size to the CHARON variable ram as follows Parameter Type Valu
106. nce CHARON PDP11 product does not have any specific parameters relevant to CPUs of the emulated PDP11 models CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 32 3 4 Auto boot feature CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 VAX PDP11 systems may be configured to boot the operating system automatically at start up The MicroVAX3100 model 96 98 VAXstation 4000 model 90 VAX6310 and the VAX 4000 model 106 108 will boot automatically if the correct boot flags are set and saved from the SRM console using the command sssset halt reboot The ROM of the MicroVAX Il MicroVAX 3600 MicroVAX 3900 VAXserver 3600 and VAXserver 3900 does not allow the SRM console to accept a command setting auto boot However an automatic boot on start up can be specified by in the CHARON VAX XX configuration file for the stated VAX models set bdr boot auto 3 5 PDP11 CPUs The PDP11 CPU is identified as cpu 0 and has three configuration options auto boot frequency and instruction time table first option is relative to boot device selection while two last ones are related to controlling instruction timings CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 33 Parameter Type Value auto boot Character The string parameter auto boot specifies the name and unit number for the device to be used as autoboot device Name is two letters mnemonic for device based on its type e g DU for MSCP DL for RLO1 RLO2 and so on Specified device unit should be within
107. nd set the time FAQ and troubleshooting 139 When you close down the operating system and exit the emulator a TOY container file will be created Give the emulator a few seconds to save the details in the ROM and TOY containers If in doubt delete the old ROM or TOY container file and start again Once these files have been created correctly they will be maintained as required by CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 and will not normally need to be re created Q My application uses the physical Ethernet address as a license key It works on my original VAX PDP11 but not on the emulator A Use the STATION ADDRESS parameter to set the desired physical address on your emulated Ethernet card Q The emulator warns you that your physical Ethernet connection is too fast Example WARNING 100 Mbps Network card or possibility to negotiate line speed over 10 Mbs has been detected on the interface The emulated VAX PDP11 may not be able to maintain reliable Network operations over such a card A If you are running CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 version 3 and later you will be able to achieve stable operations on a network adapter set to 100 Mbs You will still see the above warning but Network operations will be maintained in most cases if you have a fast host system If significant packet loss or an application malfunctions due to Network errors the first thing to try is setting the card down to 10 Mbs Half Duplex The message is generated if the ne
108. nes Host system connection CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 connection name COM ports physical_serial_line Connecting via TCP IP virtual_serial_line Example for the UART load virtual serial line chserial OPAO set uart line OPA0 Example for the DHV11 load DHV11 TXA load physical serial line chserial TXAO line COM1 set TXA line 0 TXA0 CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 47 Connect to a physical port Use the CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 connection name physical serial line to prepare for a connection to a COM port on the host system The following set options are available Parameter Type Value line Character Connects a CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 serial line to a host system COM port Example COM2 break on Character Defines a key combination of keys for the break operation Works only for the console line The only line of the UART and line 3 of QUART Ctrl P or and Break specify one of them or both separating with comma none No break key is defined The default value is Break for line 3 of the QUART and none for other lines Note that in the examples below DEF and GHI are logical names for the serial line emulation These names are only used as a reference within a configuration file They have no influence on the naming of the devices inside a VAX PDP11 operating system The names used can be helpful identifiers use any character string you wish Example load physica
109. ng example LPV11 instance called Ipv opens host port 10004 and starts HOSTprint application directing it to connect to the port 10004 and use the font Courier New 12 for printing load chapi lpvl address 017777514 vector 0200 set lpvl dll lpvll dll parameters port 10004 application VAXprint port 10004 fontsize 12 font Courier New 3 19 The DUMMY VCB02 device This chapter applies only to MicroVAX 3600 MicroVAX 3900 VAXserver 3900 and VAXserver 3600 emulation The dummy VCB02 device emulates the Qbus registers of a VCB02 graphic controller at the secondary VCB02 device address but does not implement graphic display functionality Its purpose is to be able to use a workstation version of VMS When this device is loaded and VAX VMS boots with a D workstation type license the license is accepted as VMS recognizes that a VCB02 is present As the dummy VCBO02 is located on the secondary address Ox3fff02 VMS boots using the normal console terminal without graphics capability The format is as follows load dummy vcb02 null vcb02 dummy Note that since this dummy device cannot draw graphics CHARON VAX will fail the initial hardware diagnostics but it will still boot correctly 3 20 Creating a VAX configuration manually This chapter explains step by step how to create a simple configuration file for CHARON VAX XX for a VAX 4000 Model 108 Configuration files for other VAX and PDP11 models can be created in a similar way
110. not specified the LUN number defaults to zero Example load physical scsi device chscsi tapebl scsi_bus pkb scsi id 1 Set tapebl containers NN Nscsi2 0 4 CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 58 The SCSI Check utility can be used to identify the correct device string used in the CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration file see the Utilities chapter 3 12 4 atapi_scsi_device CHARON VAX XX supports IDE CD ROM drives on the host system See the physical_scsi_device for support of SCSI CD ROM devices The device location is specified in the configuration file using the full device name Use the atapi_scsi_device for mapping IDE CD ROM to CHARON VAX XX atapi_scsi_device has the following parameter Parameters Type Value container N Character A string containing IDE or SCSI CD ROM to map to the N 0 7 emulator N stands for logical unit number It must begin from aise 0 and has no gaps If there is only one logical unit it can be omitted Example load atapi_scsi_device pka 0 scsi_bus pka scsi_id 0 set pka 0 container CdRom0 This example assigns the first CD ROM drive installed on your host system CdRom0 as a SCSI device pka O Use the SCSI Check utility to display the name of the CDROM drive 3 12 5 floppy_scsi_device It is possible to attach one of the SCSI devices in the configuration file to the 3 5 floppy drive of the host computer The attached floppy drive appears as RX26 SCSI floppy drive in OpenV
111. ns enough capacity for the Windows system resources and a local X terminal emulator The table below lists the memory requirements for each VAX PDP11 CPU emulation mode and the maximum amount of VAX PDP11 memory Product Product code VAX memory Host memory CHARON VAX XM CHVX 021 PD WI 128MB 1 GB CHARON VAX XM Plus CHVX 221 PD WI 128MB 1 GB CHARON VAX XK Plus CHVX 221 PE WI 256MB 2 GB CHARON VAX XL CHVX 021 PF WI 512MB 3 GB CHARON VAX XL Plus CHVX 221 PF WI 512MB 3GB Overview 6 Product Product code VAX memory Host memory CHARON PDP11 CHVX XXX WI 4MB 512 MB CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 disks can be assigned to host system SCSI drives not formatted by Windows or are represented as a disk image file Disk images are standard local or remote Windows files The CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 executables require approximately 30 MB disk space and can be stored on the IDE drive CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 can also use SCSI tapes a SCSI or ATAPI CD ROM or PC floppy drives CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 require a dedicated Ethernet adapter for networking and a free USB port for the USB license key Overview 7 2 CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 installation This chapter explains how to install CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 how to configure a basic system in CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 allowing installation of a VAX PDP11 operating system and how to transfer your applications 2 1 Before you start Please read the Release Notes
112. nt is to be overwritten or appended Possible values are APPEND or OVERWRITE Default value is OVERWRITE If the value specified is other then append or overwrite then overwrite is used This parameter must be specified prior to the log parameter to let CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 know what type of file access will be used when the log file is opened with log parameter Generally it is recommended to specify both log and log method in one line as it is shown in Example 2 below Note that any log method specified after the specification of log will be skipped without notice Defines the message types that should be shown The parameter is a string of comma delimited words all info warning and error which defines which message types should be logged The default value is all message types CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 29 Parameter Type Value log repeat filter Character Specifies if repeated messages should be filtered or not Possible values are on and off default If the value is on immediately following messages with the same identifier and system error code are not listed in the log but they are counted When a different log message is generated the repeat count of the earlier log message is reported with The previous message has been repeated N times and the counter is cleared hw model Character A string specifying the CPU type Mandatory parameter Choices are e
113. o 0 scs node name Character A string value that specifies the SCSNODENAME of the emulated HSD50 storage controller The string is up to 6 characters long Possible characters are uppercase letters A through Z figures 0 through 9 Initially set to the name of the emulated HSD50 controller Therefore name of emulated HSD50 controller shal follow the above rule CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 65 Parameter Type Value scs system id Numeric An integer value that specifies the SCSSYSTEMID of the emulated HSD50 storage controller Initially set to an arbitrary value that is guaranteed to be unique within the running emulated VAX 4000 model 106 or 108 node mscp_allocation_class Numeric An integer value which specified the ALLOCLASS of the emulated HSD50 storage controller Possible values are from 0 through 255 initially set to 0 CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 66 Parameter container N N 0 9999 Type Character Value A string value that specifies the container of the storage element with MSCP unit number N This storage element might be either a virtual disk or tape In VMS running on an emulated VAX 4000 node these storage elements appear as HSX00 disks DUAN or HSTOO tapes MUAN Possible values of the parameter are strings in one of the following forms 1 PhysicalDrive X where X is 0 1 for accessing non removable physical disk drives 2 CdRom X wh
114. of the configuration file Sample configuration files 135 Appendix B Pathworks 32 HP PATHWORKS 32 is recommended as a useful addition to CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 HP PATHWORKS 32 is a member of the PATHWORKS family of software products that provides PC connectivity in local and wide area networks Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 PCs can be connected to the RSX11 RT11 the HP OpenVMS Operating System VAX and Alpha the HP Tru64 UNIX Operating System Alpha only and other Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 systems and can use selected resources of those systems PATHWORKS 32 contains network connectivity components DECnet and TCP IP the eXcursion X Server and the PowerTerm 525 terminal emulator CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 customers can use Pathworks 32 as a File transfer system for PC to OpenVMS file transfers an X Windows emulator to replace their DEC workstation graphics or a terminal emulator to replace their Digital VTxxx Terminals For details of HP Pathworks 32 see http h71000 www7 hp com pathworks32 PATHWORKS 32 configuration steps 1 On the hosting server Make sure that the CHARON Packet Protocol NDIS6 is installed and selected from the Windows Network Properties If another Internet Protocol TCP IP has been enabled disable it See the CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 network installation for detailed instructions Start CHARON VAX XX product Make sure that VAX VMS contains e DECwindows Motif installed and licensed e
115. of the form LLD or LLLD where L is letter from A through Z and D is decimal number from 0 through 99 If not specified device name is set to MU and device type is set to TK50 Initially not specified CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 49 Use the ADDRESS parameter if loading several instances of TQK50 The ADDRESS parameter value must be unique for every instance of TQK50 See the Application Note 32 for advice on configuring Qbus adapters Example load TQK50 MUA address 017774500 set MUA container 0 Tape2 set MUA container 1 C charon tapes tapel mtd set MUA container 2 scsi2 0 4 Multi volume tape images may be handled as follows set MUA container OJ set MUA container 1 J set MUA container 2 set MUA container 3 In VMS for example BACKUP RESTORE MUAO BACKUP SAV MUA1 MUA2 MUA3 SAVE_SET DUAO 3 11 3 The TUK50 TMSCP UNIBUS Controller The CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 provide support for a TUK50 tape controller only used in the VAX6310 and PDP11 94 emulators The original TUK50 tape controller is capable of serving only 1 tape unit But the CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 extend this limit so that the TUK50 tape controller can be configured with up to 10000 tape units Use the following command to load an instance of a TUK50 tape controller LOAD TUK50 lt logical name gt Example load TUK50 MUA Note that the specifica
116. on file gt Example gt mv3k6 exe c my_cfg my_configuration cfg Note that this way you can run multiple instances of CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 if it is allowed by your license Use the CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 Launcher to diagnose and correct configuration errors recorded in the configuration file Once your CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration is defined it may be configured as a Windows system service Once installed the service may be started and stopped manually or automatically using the CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 Service Manager its icon is located in the system tray When installing a service the configuration parameters in the configuration file are stored in the system registry and the service would read the registry not the configuration file Thus once a service is installed any subsequent changes to the configuration file will not change the settings of the installed service To change the settings of an installed service please remove the service test the changes to the configuration file and recreate the service It is possible to install several different CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP171 services and to run them one by one or in the same time if the license allows it CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 27 When CHARON VAX XX or CHARON PDP11 starts it creates an icon on the taskbar menu with the name specified in the configuration name parameter Clicking on this icon with the right button of your
117. ontroller and then load and connect a virtual_serial_line or a physical_serial_line interface to the corresponding line of the DHQ11 controller as it was shown for a virtual_serial_line in the chapter on serial lines load DHQ11 DHV11 TXA load physical_serial_line chserial TXAO line COM1 set TXA line 0 TXAO The DHV11 specification tells the emulator that the DHV11 DLL must be loaded for the DHQ11 controller This DLL needs to be loaded only once you can omit this specification for subsequent instances of the DHV11 DHQ11 CXY08 CXA16 and CXB16 serial line controllers 3 20 12 The DELQA Ethernet adapter First load the controller itself load DELQA DEQNA XQA Once the DLL is loaded you can omit the DEQNA specification for the next instances of the DELQA DESQA Note that the DEQNA does not need a specific request to load its DLL since the device name is the same as the name of the DLL load packet port chnetwrk XQAO interface connection CHARON2 set XQA interface XQA0 Note that if the packet port is loaded before any Ethernet adapter you should load its DLL as well load packet port chnetwrk XQA0 In this configuration example the DELQA and SGEC are already loaded causing the loading of all the required DLLs belonging to the network emulation Hence the specification chnetwrk is not strictly required here CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 90 3 20 13 The resulting configuration The resulting con
118. oth the RTS and DSR parameters were introduced mainly for supporting modems Following the original design the CHARON VAX QUART provides input modem signals only for line 2 Therefore values of the DSR parameter for lines other than 2 are not visible for the application 3 10 Serial line controllers The CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 QBUS systems support DHV11 DHQ11 CXY08 CXA16 CXB16 DZV11 and DZQ11 asynchronous serial line multiplexers The SCSI systems support the DHW42 serial line multiplexer The Qbus SCSI systems support all of them Asynchronous serial line multiplexers generally are capable of serving up to 8 asynchronous serial lines but the DHW42 BA supports 16 lines The VAX PDP11 models emulated in CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 support the following asynchronous serial line multiplexers VAX PDP11 model Asynchronous serial line emulation MicroVAX Il MicroVAX 3600 MicroVAX CXA16 CXB16 CXY08 DHQ11 DHV11 3900 VAXserver 3600 VAXserver 3900 DZV11 DZQ11 PDP11 93 PDP11 94 MicroVAX 3100 96 MicroVAX 3100 98 DHW42 AA DHW42 BA DHW42 CA VAX4000 106 VAX4000 108 CXA16 CXB16 CXY08 DHQ11 DHV11 DZV11 DZQ11 DHW42 AA DHW42 CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 38 VAX PDP11 model Asynchronous serial line emulation BA DHW42 CA VAX6310 VAXstation 4090 N A The following names are used for the multiplexers Device name DLL name to load DHV11 DHA11 DHV11 CXY08 DHV11 CXA16 DHV11 CXB16 DHV11
119. parameter specifies what CPUs in particular each instance can allocate c The instance name configuration name helps to distinguish the particular CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 instance The name specified in this parameter is displayed at the CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 tray icon Using those 3 parameters it s possible to balance all the running instances and thus achieve desired performance Note that log rom nvram and toy containers should have different names for every instance 3 Once the configuration files are updated for each particular instance CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 that s the time to run them At the moment the Launcher utility does not support multi instance running so it is possible a Run each instance from a shortcut In this case a shortcut should contain a proper configuration file name for each instance as parameter Run each instance as service c Run each instance from command line Open up the cmd exe Start gt Run type cmd exe cd to the directory where CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP 11 executables are installed type lt name of the executable gt lt name of the configuration file gt and press Enter Repeat the last actions for all the instances to be run in the same time Note that the configuration files must be different for each one Example gt mv3k6 exe vax1 cfg 2 gt mv3k6 exe vax2 cfg CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 installation 20 See the chapter 2 7 for deta
120. pported Ethernet Q bus Adapters for DECnet OSI DECnet Plus The only supported Q bus device is the DELQA adapter model During DECnet OSI installation or DECnet OSI interface reconfiguration DEQNA and DESQA models are not recognized as valid devices DECnet OSI SPD Note integrated SGEC Ethernet EZA on MV3100 amp VAX 4000 106 108 is supported by DECnet OSI Integrated ESA AMD Lance 7990 device is supported too but it is not implemented by Charon VAX XX at the moment 3 16 VAX Non Volatile Memory NVRAM Parameter Type Value container Character This parameter tells the emulator where to preserve NVRAM content It will keep the current time of the emulated VAX PDP11 when you do not run the emulator and some but not all of the console parameters The NVRAM container can be specified as follows CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 83 set toy lt parameter gt lt Value gt Example set toy container charon dat In the above TOY is an abbreviation for TIME OF YEAR If your VAX PDP11 operating system cannot determine the date and time automatically the NVRAM file is probably corrupted To fix this delete the file reboot your system and set the date and time in the VAX PDP11 operating system again To verify that it now works correctly shut down the VAX PDP11 operating system and close CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 Start the emulator again and check that the VAX PDP11 operating system can determine the co
121. r configuration file records 10036756 MICTOYER SULU 1067 106 J Eze stil systems WAYS 66 At the end of each operation with a network interface the following dialog file is displayed providing a log Utilities 104 CHARON Network Control Center x CHARON Network Control Center Application log amp results Date Message ID Message Test 2006 11 06 0400012E NETCFG UTILITY Selected adapter Microsoft Loopback Adapter PHYSICAL DESIGNATED 2006 11 06 04000147 NETCFG UTILITY Choose lt NEXT gt Wizard button from CChooseAdapter 2006 11 06 04000148 NETCFG UTILITY Choose lt BACK gt Wizard button from CShowddapter Save Log in file lt Back Cancel It is also possible to check the status of the adapter dedicated to CHARON Green means that the adapter is ready for use with CHARON red means some problems are detected Utilities 105 CHARON Network Control Center CHARON Network Control Center View Adapter Settings O Internet Protocol TCP IP O Point to Point Protocol Over Ethernet O NDIS Usermode 1 0 Protocol Evil CHARON Packet Protocol NDIS5 v5 4 O Alpha Emulator Packet Protocol NDIS5 The following 2 screenshots demonstrate an ability of the utility to check whether chosen DECnet or TCPIP addresses are free for CHARON Utilities 106 CHARON Network Control Center CHARON Network Control Center Step 1 LAN tests Utilitie
122. r of the CHARON installation directory where xxx stands for the build number The CHARON Launcher utility allows you to select a configuration file to run and to view the errors or log file from the Launcher Window Access the CHARON Launcher from the CHARON entry of the Windows Start Programs Menu The CHARON Launcher is useful for debugging configuration changes See the Utilities Chapter for a full description of the CHARON Launcher 2 1 8 Running CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 as a service Once the desired configuration has been tested install the configuration as a service using the CHARON Launcher and manage the initiation of that service using the CHARON Service Manager See the Chapter Utilities for details The separation of the CHARON Launcher and the CHARON Service Manager allows the system manager to manage the content of available services and allows operational staff to run the services without risk of making unauthorized or unintentional changes to the installed services To make it impossible to modify installed services remove the CHARON Launcher It is possible to configure a CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 service to automatically start when Windows is booted CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 installation 18 In this even if case right after system boot there will be no terminal emulator windows opened they have been configured in the running CHARON service configuration file on its installation steps To activate the configured
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124. rect this situation by slowing down the VAX CPU emulator component when VAX is running the idle process See Utilities chapter for details CHARON VAX XX is a Windows application that can co exist with other applications although this is not a recommended situation In case sharing is required e g to run an Xterminal emulator the Windows scheduler handles the load distribution between applications When running on a single CPU host system with no Hyper threading the VAX CPU components is impacted significantly and shuts down the ACE mode to preserve VAX peripheral response time This mode is signaled in the CHARON VAX log file For best performance a dual CPU host system is required The load distribution of the CHARON VAX XX components over both CPUs is automatic CHARON VAX XX will not use more than two host CPUs It can only run with one instance VAX VMS clustering CHARON VAX XX for Windows systems can be clustered together over the Ethernet NI cluster they may also join existing VAX or Alpha VMS clusters When using the VAX 4000 10X system models the emulated MSCP controllers permit sharing disks directly provided the appropriate host hardware is used To add a CHARON VAX XX to a cluster use the standard cluster licenses and commands See the following OpenVMS documentation for detailed instructions e OpenVMS Cluster Systems AA PV5WE TK e Guidelines for OpenVMS Cluster Configurations AA Q28LE Tk The following is
125. riter Utilities 114 printer mscdc MSCLPS Parameters used only for compatibility with old version of the utility HOSTprint allow to change font settings from popup menu Pr font lt default font face gt Png fontsize xdefault font sizes It is strongly recommended to used fixed size fonts by default the Courier font is used to avoid any problems relevant to proper calculation of the printing line length Configuration file examples load chapi lpvl set Ipvi dll lpvll1 dll set lpvl port 10015 application hostprint exe port 10015 printer mscdc MSCPS2 font Courier New fontsize 10 load chapi lpv2 address 017764004 set lpv2 dll lpvl1l1 dl1l set lpv2 port 10016 application hostprint exe port 10016 printer mscdc MSCLPS font Courier New fontsize 12 After initialization HOSTprint creates the icon at the Windows toolbar There are two colors of the icon Green indicated Idle or Ready state Yellow indicated BUSY processing mode To access the HOSTprint application popup menu point the mouse cursor at its icon in the system tray menu and click the right button Then you can preview the last page content change utility mode via the flush buffer delay and change the default font settings 4 10 Host CPU optimization package The CHARON CPU usage optimization package is a collection of utilities IDLE SHUTDOWN SHUTDOWN_R SPEEDUP SLOWDO
126. rrect date and time from the emulated system clock The CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 system time is stored as an offset to the host system time Thus do not reset the host system time Note that if you are using a date limited CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP171 license re setting the host system time can permanently disable the license 3 17 The Flash ROM state The Flash ROM stores the VAX console parameters including any saved boot settings Parameter Type Value Container Character This parameter tells the emulator where to store intermediate state of the Flash ROM if changed The container file is only created or updated if the defaults are changed Note that the Flash ROM device emulation is only present in the emulated MicroVAX3100 96 98 and VAX4000 106 108 The ROM file of the emulated VAXes can be specified as follows set rom lt parameter gt lt value gt Example set rom container charon rom If your operating system cannot determine the boot parameters the Flash ROM file is probably corrupted Delete the file and restart the emulator Now set the boot parameters and check that the emulator can determine the boot parameters automatically at the next restart 3 18 The LPV11 Line printer Controller CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 Q bus systems provide support for the LPV11 Parallel Line Printer controller The LPV11 emulation is implemented using the CHARON Qbus API CHAPI This interface is designed to allow third parties
127. rst step of the installation process before connecting the key to the PC Note If you inserted the key before its driver is installed the Windows operating system will automatically look for the USB driver In that case cancel the USB installation and remove the license key Install the License key driver manually by running the installation program found in the Hardlock folder of the CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 installation CD Once the driver installation program is completed re insert the license key and continue with the CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 installation When CHARON VAX XX or CHARON PDP11 starts the license checking procedure takes a few seconds When checking a verification message is displayed If you remove the license key while CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 is running a warning message is given after a few minutes and you have a maximum of 10 minutes to ensure that the license key is connected and recognized Otherwise CHARON would shut down However it is possible to switch to other license without stopping CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 To do that disconnect the current license and replace it with new one as soon as possible It is also possible to update the license content without stopping CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 with HASPRUS utility see the Utilities chapter Please be careful with the license key as it represents the full value of the license and will not be replaced if lost The average time between failures of
128. rvice Management to customize printing through Print Preview and Print Setup Display service startup and error log displays the service startup and event log of a chosen service in the right panel of the application This function is also available on the View submenu Display the configuration displays the configuration of the chosen service on the right panel of the application This function is also available on the View submenu B charon CHARON Service Manager X Service Management View Help Re I B Hox P XEON AWAY WT Value Emulation type MicroVAX 3100 Model 98 Home directory C Program FilesxCHARON Build 13402986 RAM size 16 For Help press F1 NUM 10 The System Monitor invokes the Windows system monitor to trace the chosen service activity This function is also available on the View submenu 11 The question mark buttons provide access to the help system It is possible to use the system tray menu to manage CHARON services w o opening the main window of the utility Click at it with the right button of the mouse and the following pop up menu will appear Utilities 99 Open cdrom test ly charon charon_tb ch_test ch test1 CYAX gt b b b b terminal gt Pla On Gil Exit mamaw hey ees isu The tray menu lists all the installed CHARON services For each service the full range of essential operations is available Open Start c
129. s Typically you do not need to change this parameter port pending tx number Numeric 8 port pending tx number sets the number of buffers the port uses to transmit The default value is 62 You may want to increase the port pending tx number value if the log file indicates dropped TX packets due to TX queue overflow Typically you do not need to change this parameter CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 82 Parameters Type Value suspend msg on mac change Boolean To avoid confusion arrising from non critical errors during MAC address change by default logging is supressed default value is true To enable tracing during MAC address change set this parameter to false Example set eza 0 suspend msg on mac change false Once you have loaded one of the packet interfaces connect the built in Ethernet Controller EZA or loaded instance s of DEQNA DELQA DESQA to this port in the following way set eza interface lt instance name gt example set eza interface eza 0 Example for the DEQNA DESQA DELQA load DEQNA XQA load packet port chnetwrk XQAO interface connection CHARON set XQA interface XQA0 3 15 6 Ethernet Q bus Adapter and Cluster configuration rules With VMS Cluster using VMS V 5 5 and above only use DELQA and DESQA Ethernet adapters that are supported VMS Cluster SPD The default DEQNA device is not supported for SCS Cluster protocol and emulated VAX will fail with CLUEXIT Bugcheck 3 15 7 Su
130. s 107 CHARON Network Control Center CHARON Network Control Center Step 2 LAN tests Utilities 108 4 4 MKDISK utility The MKDISK utility creates empty disk images of given standard disk drive types or of custom disk images It is available in the utilities folder under CHARON Start gt Programs gt CHARON gt lt product gt gt Utility Disk Image generator for Windows Choose the system in the first drop down box specify All controllers in the second and choose the desired disk in the third one After that press the Create Disk Image button select the destination folder enter the DEC RZ59 Winchester desired disk image name and press Save Disk Properties Size 8 5 Gb Number of blocks 17755614 To generate disk images with any size use the Sectors 193 Block sie 512 Custom type and enter the number of blocks and block size In the disk properties you see the size of Create Disk Image the disk to be created O 2002 Software Resources International WWW SOFTRESINT COM VAX All controllers 1259 8 5 Gb 4 5 Sentinel HASPRUS utility HASPRUS utility allows applying a license update to the CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 HASP license dongle It provides the following functionality 1 Collecting HASP key license information and creating a special c2v file which should be sent to STROMASYS 2 Updating CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 license with v2c file received from STR
131. s 127 0 0 1 port 10020 log chapi_vt30tv log trace level 0 Utilities 117 Appendix A Sample configuration files CHARON VAX XX and CHARON PDP11 use configuration files which are located by default in the directory CHARON sBuild XXX 5x86 Three sample configuration files are S hown below VAX 4000 Model 108 configuration file H H H H H H H FH Copyright C 1999 2011 STROMASYS All rights reserved The software contained on this media is proprietary to and embodies the confidential technology of STROMASYS Posession use duplication or dissemination of the software and media is authorized only pursuant to a valid written license from STROMASYS Sample configuration file for VAX 4000 Model 108 Specify hw_model prior to any other commands This parameter informs the emulator what type of VAX it should emulate All the other commands availability and possibility to use depend on this specification Comment the following line if you do not want the log to be saved into file change name of the file as well if needed Default is overwrite If append is chosen each new session of the emulator appends its log to this file therefore it grows bigger with time Note that the log_method should be specified prior to the log parameter generally it is recommended to specify both of them in one line exactly as it s shown below Sample configuration files
132. se the following dialog to configure a particular network adapter Utilities 102 CHARON Network Control Center CHARON Network Control Center Physical Adapter configuration Please select the physical adapter from the list Depending on the adapter state and configuration you can use the buttons to multiplex adapter de multiples adapter designate adapter to CHARON or release adapter to the host When you took all planned actions select the adapter you want to configure and press Next button to continue with adapter configuration Evil Intel R PRO Wireless 2200BG Network Connection PHYSICAL USED BY THE HOST Wireless Network Connection 2 Ev Intel R PRO 100 YE Network Connection PHYSICAL USED BY THE HOST Local Area Connection 3 Microsoft Loopback Adapter PHYSICAL USED BY THE HOST Local Area Connection 2 ET 1394 Net Adapter PHYSICAL USED BY THE HOST 1394 Connection Multiple the adapter Designate adapter to CHARON Demulliplex the adapter Release adapter to H ST lt Back Cancel Press Next to dedicate selected adapter s for CHARON It is also possible to multiplex the chosen adapter if the MUX driver is installed Once an adapter is dedicated to CHARON the Network Control Center provides information to be inserted into the configuration file for this particular adapter Utilities 103 CHARON Network Control Center CHARON Network Control Center Proposals fo
133. sional tasks in Windows e g network backup when CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 is not running While stable operations should be possible on network adapters set to 100Mbps or higher in case of problems manually set the dedicated network adapter to 10Mbps half duplex to match the capability of a VAX PDP11 CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 network installation and configuration involves three steps The first step installs the CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 specific NDIS6 packet driver The second step is to obtain the NIC device name you want to use for networking please refer to Network Control Center utility description in the section 4 3 The third step inserts the NIC device name in the CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration file CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP 11 installation 15 The CHARON installation tool performs the first step automatically However in case of any troubles concerning the NDIS6 Packet driver installation here is a description on how to install the driver manually 1 Installing the NDIS6 packet driver It is strongly recommended to use special utility called Network Control Center NetDiag exe for all the operations relevant to host networking configuration for CHARON because not all the protocols and bindings could be managed through the Windows GUI If it is impossible for any reasons please use the procedure described below Open the Network Connections applet from the Start Settings menu Select the Lo
134. st be supplied through the corresponding parameter For example the following line load HSD50 DISKS dssi host PAA dssi node id 5 mscp allocation class 5 assigns the DISKS emulated storage controller the MSCP allocation class 5 Configuration Example 3 A dual node VAX cluster with 4 shared disks To setup two emulated VAX 4000 Model 108 nodes we need two host machines preferably running the same version of Windows Assume that these host systems have Windows host names CASTOR and POLLUX in the host TCP IP network The following is the CHARON VAX configuration file for the emulated VAX 4000 Model 108 node named VAX001 running on CASTOR set session hw_model VAX 4000 Model 108 set session log vax001 log set toy container vax001 dat set rom container vax001 rom CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 77 load virtual serial line OPAO port 10003 application opa0 ht set PAA port 2 11012 host 2 pollux 11021 load HSD50 DISKS dssi host PAA dssi node id 3 set DISKS scs system id 3238746238 mscp allocation class 1 set DISKS container 0 2 H ourdisks dua0 rz24 vms v6 2 vdisk set DISKS container 1 H ourdisks dual rz24 vms v6 2 vdisk set DISKS container 2 H ourdisks dua2 rz24 vms v6 2 vdisk set DISKS container 3 H ourdisks dua3 rz24 vms v6 2 vdisk And the following is the CHARON VAX configuration file for the emulated VAX 4000 Model 108 node named VAX002 running on POLLUX set session h
135. stem environment as files Two SCSI controllers are provided PKA and PKB in CHARON VAX XX with 7 addresses each The utility SCSI CHECK see the Utilities chapter helps to locate a SCSI device in the Windows host system if mapping to physical devices is required Beyond the capabilities of the hardware VAX 3100 9x and 4000 10x CHARON VAX XX has implemented extended SCSI addressing Each of the seven device addresses of a SCSI controller can support up to eight disks tape images Thus the total number of disks supported becomes 2 Controllers 7 addresses 8 Disks Tapes which gives a theoretical total of 112 disks tapes SCSI devices with the same ID but different LUNs logical units appear in the VAX console with different names The naming convention is as follows Each SCSI device has the name of the form xKctOn where X stands for device type D means disks M means magnetic tapes G is reserved by OpenVMS for special purposes c stands for controller letter A the first controller B the second controller t stands for SCSI device ID usually 0 through 6 and 7 is allocated by the controller itself and finally n stands for a particular logical unit number LUN Most of the normal SCSI devices have only one logical unit 0 Therefore under normal conditions disks in OpenVMS appear as DKAO which is really DKA000 DKA100 DKA200 tapes MKAO which is really MKA000 MKA100 MKA200 As soon as there
136. svsdernissaiinndwaiswaddvadsintanneennsscadeniaianinaden 38 3 11 MSCP and TMSCP Conntrollers ccccsseseeeeeeeeeeeeeneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeneeeeeees 45 3 12 SCSI Control aaa NAAANINAG GANI 51 3 13 bA AA AA AA 60 3 14 MD BGO Laan TA 74 3 15 EthernetadaptefsS Xmas 77 Contents v 3 16 VAX Non Volatile Memory NVRAM ccccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 83 3 17 The Flash ROM Salam GAGANA GANG GNG 84 3 18 The LPV11 Line printer Controller eeeeeeeeeseseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 84 3 19 The DUMMY VGBO0Z device in maa 86 3 20 Creating a VAX configuration manually 00mnnnmamanuwwanunnununununaauwnn 86 3 21 Starting the sample CONFIQUIATION eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeneees 91 na a E A T 93 4 1 CHARON Launcne hiss mama NANANG BENNY DGIND 93 4 2 CHARON Service Manage ccccccccsseseseeeeeeeeeeeeeeseneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseseeseeneees 96 4 3 CHARON Network Control Center ccssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 100 4 4 MK DISK UNYA PIRATA NNMAN AA ADA 109 4 5 Sentinel KASPRUS utility a aaa AA GA NA GAA 109 4 6 HASP View Utility mauna UNANG NANANG NGI reaut aaan 110 4T SCSI Che K irain aNG NA eas eauta ai secadcatananduans sandedaancadeaanesaseanseaiaeausel 110 4 8 WED tunity a0 AIIB NDPILG REG RA DARIA AA 113 4 9 HOSTPRINT UNNY 24am BEBB GANI GANAA GANA BANAAG 114 4 10 Host CPU optimization package
137. t CHARON VAX XX from the desktop or start menu shortcuts if available If for example you name the configuration file mycfg cfg you can create your own shortcut or start CHARON VAX XX with this configuration file from the CHARON Launcher CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 97 The CHARON Launcher is also useful to debug a configuration file It displays any errors and the log file from the same window from which you can edit and start your configuration Alternatively open up a DOS window set the directory to Build XXX and issue the following command gt vx4k108 exe mycfg cfg CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 92 4 Utilities 4 1 CHARON Launcher CHARON Launcher is used to configure and run a CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 instance Browse to a CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration file you want to use and select the product version In case of only one version is installed the Launcher will select it automatically CHARON Launcher will display the VAX PDP11 model specified in this configuration file Click Help or press F1 for help CHARON Launcher CHARON VAX XL Plus for Windows 41 13402 aba Specified Emulator MicroVAX 3100 Model 98 4 1 13402 Configuration file c Program Files CHARON Build_13402 x86 mv3k198 cfg F Errors and application log Message text s 2011 08 25 10 30 59 00000240 STROMASYS SA previously Software Resources International 2011 08 25 10 30 59 00000350 CH
138. t adapter with DSSI node id N Possible values are from 1024 through 32767 Initially not set A string value that specifies the TCP IP host name and optionally the TCP IP port number to connect to another emulated SHAC host adapter with DSSI node id N The syntax for the string is host name port no with possible values for port no in the range from 1024 through 32767 Initially not set A string value that specifies the SCSNODENAME of the emulated storage element The string is up to 6 characters long Possible characters are uppercase letters A through Z figures 0 through 9 Initially set to an arbitrary value that is guaranteed to be unique within the running emulated VAX 4000 model 106 or 108 node An integer value that specifies the SCSSYSTEMID of the emulated storage element Initially set to an arbitrary value that is guaranteed to be unique within the running emulated VAX 4000 model 106 or 108 node An integer value which specified the ALLOCLASS of the emulated storage element Possible values are from 0 through 255 Initially set to O which means no allocation class assigned CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 62 Parameter container N N 0 7 Type Character Value A string value that specifies the container of the storage element with DSSI node id N and MSCP unit number N This storage element might be either a virtual disk or tape In VMS running on an emulated VAX 4000 mod
139. t and allows explicit specification on which host CPU the instance shall run Host CPUs are enumerated as comma separated list of host system assigned CPU numbers for example set session affinity 0 2 4 6 Says how many host CPUs of those specified by affinity parameter if any the emulator shall use for I O handling By default the emulator instance reserves one third of available host CPUs for I O processing round down at least one The n of io cpus overrides that by specifying number of I O host CPUs explicitly for example set session n_of_io_cpus 2 The CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 parameters file can be specified as follows set session lt parameter gt lt value gt lt parameter gt lt value gt Example 1 set session hw_model MicroVAX_3100 Model 98 Note Specify the hw_model value before any other settings in the configuration file The hw_model specification cannot be omitted Example 2 set session or set session set session Example 3 set session log charon log log charon log log _method append log emulator log log_method overwrite log charon log log show messages warning error CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 37 Example 4 set session log emulator log log repeat filter on 3 3 VAX CPUs For CHARON VAX two VAX CPU implementations are available the standard VAX instruction decoder and the optional high performance Advanced CPU
140. t hand panel The buttons on the panel have the following meaning left to right 1 Manage CHARON services invokes a panel with the following options Service Name stands for the name of the chosen service Description displays the CHARON model and Path to executable refers to the executable to run Startup type can be Manual Automatic or Disabled Type or choose the desired type and press Apply to apply the setting Utilities 96 Service management dialog a mE Start Stop Charon service Service name charon Description Micro AX_3100_Model_98 Path to executable C Program Files CHARON Build 134024x864mv3k198 exe Startup type MANUAL ar Apply Service status console Service status Stopped Stat Stop Service Status gives information about the current status of the service You can start the service or stop it depending on its actual status Remove selected CHARON services removes the service you currently selected Update the list of installed CHARON services updates the service list shown in the left pane of the application window This button is useful if you add new services while the CHARON Service manager runs Just added services are invisible until you restart the CHARON Service manager or update this list This item is also available through the corresponding item on the Service Management submenu Schedule start service also available through the correspondin
141. t is pre calculated from the connected port s size of receive queue Typically you don t need to change the rx fifo size parameter It is available for extended tuning and bug hunting purposes load PMADAA ECA interface ECA0 load packet port ECA0 interface connection CHARON 3 15 4 DEBNI Ethernet Controller Load parameter Function DEBNI This command creates an instance of the DEBNI VAXBI Ethernet controller and associates it with a logical name Example load DEBNI DEMNA EXA Set parameter for DEBNI Type Value vax bi node id Number Specifies the VAXBI slot in which the virtual DEBNI controller is placed For CHARON VAX 66X0 a free slot between 10 A and 14 E must be chosen interface Text This connects the logical name representing a string DEBNI instance with the logical name of a host CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 80 Set parameter for DEBNI Type Value network port after the host network port is loaded station address Ethernet address Station address allows to specify the permanent address of the adapter The default permanent address is read from the host system s NIC Setting the station address is required when configuring a satellite remotely booted system that runs DECnet or when a VAX application uses the NIC permanent address for license protection Format XX XX XX XX XX XX 0r XX XX XX XX XX XX r
142. tainer 1 C mydisks dial rz24 vms v6 2 vdisk The emulated VAX 4000 model 106 or 108 can then boot VMS with the following command gt gt gt BOOT DIAO After logging into VMS the SHOW DEVICE command displays the following sho dev d Device Device Error Volume Free Trans Mnt Name Status Count Label Blocks Count Cnt 004200SDIA0 Mounted 0 DSSI01 32022 147 1 004201SDIA1 Online 0 So Configuration Example 2 Standalone VAX 2 disks and a tape drive on a separate HSD50 controllers The configuration file below emulates a VAX 4000 Model 108 node one HSD50 storage controller serving two disks and another instance of a HSD50 that serves a tape drive to the VAX over a virtual DSSI set session hw_model VAX 4000 Model 108 set session log example2 log set toy container example2 dat set rom container example2 rom load virtual serial line OPAO port 10003 application opa0 ht load HSD50 DISKS dssi host PAA dssi node id 1 set DISKS container 0 C mydisks dua0 rz24 vms v6 2 vdisk set DISKS container 1 C mydisks dual rz24 vms v6 2 vdisk load HSD50 TAPES dssi_host PAA dssi_node_id 2 set TAPES container 3 Tape0d CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 69 In this example we emulate two HSD50 instances Since they are both connected to the same virtual DSSI bus we must assign them different DSSI node id values The emulated VAX 4000 Model 108 can then boot VMS with the following command
143. tapel vtape Tapeod 4 9 HOSTPRINT utility HOSTprint is a Windows application that receives data from an emulated LPV11 on CHARON via a TCP IP socket and prints the data received on the default Windows printer if no printer specified at the utility command line of the host computer As HOSTprint relays on CHAPI emulated LPV11 Q bus parallel port it is only available for use with Q bus based emulated VAX models There are two operation modes supported by HOSTprint application 1 Line printer Digital LA75 emulation In this mode the utility emulates ESC sequences of the selected line printer see the LA75 manual for details Once a page is completely filled with data it is sent to the printer output to emulate line printer functionality To use this mode you should properly configure the OpenVMS printing queue and use OpenVMS PRINT command 2 Working in old version of the utility compatible printing mode Access popup menu and set Flush buffer delay time Recommended value is 5 seconds Under OpenVMS type COPY MY PRINTED FILE LPAO Both modes supports print preview of the last page in the printing buffer Command line parameters host lt hostname gt port lt connection port number gt delay xdelay for automatically buffer flush in seconds gt 0 wait infinite 5 10800 timeout for flush printer PrinterDeviceName Example printer Microsoft Office Document Image W
144. terminal emulators use the CHARON Service manager shortcut in the system tray See the Utilities Chapter for more details 21 9 Additional drivers included to the CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 provided the following additional drivers to support CHAPI CHARON API functionality ATTENTION Those drivers could be used on a Windows 32 bit platform only i e on Windo ws 7 32 bit If you plan to use the functionality provided by those drivers you must use 32 bit Windows hosting platform BCI2X0X SYS The BCI 2104 BCI 2004 bus adapter driver used by the CHAPI_QBUS and CHAPI UNIBUS examples S3QBUS_PPT SYS The S3QBUS bus adapter driver for CESYS PCISIBASE FPGA board used by the CHAPI_S3QBUS example DCI1100 SYS The DCI 1100 adapter driver used by the CHAPI_DRV11WA example PPT SYS A generic PCI Pass through device driver that is used for DR11 DRV11 DRV11 WA ports mapped to a Sensoray 621 digital I O board and DPV11 mapped to SEALEVEL SYNC SERIAL BOARD 5102S board For more information on usage of these drivers please refer to the CHAPI User s Guide 2 1 10 Running multiple instances of CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 supports several instances of the emulators running on the same host To install such configuration the following steps should be taken 1 The host system should have enough CPUs and memory to provide them to all the emulators
145. the license key is approximately 100 years For the customers under support in case the license key is broken a replacement will be supplied on return of the broken key If you want to ensure continuous processing in case of critical applications schedules and where there is a risk of license key damage please contact your supplier or Stromasys SA for more information 2 1 3 Review the product components to be installed Once the installation of the HASP driver and several additional re distributives took place the following dialog of the installation procedure invites user to review select deselect particular components of the chosen product s CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 installation 13 SIROMASKS VIRTUALIZATION A CHARON Installation Wizard The Components Product Components CHARON YAXAXL Plus for Windows v4 1 1 WE Drivers o ME BCI ZXOX driver v2 0 1 12400 ME DCI 1100 driver v2 0 1 12400 ME NDI56 Packet Driver version 6 2 ME PPT driver v2 1 0 12400 ME Virtual network adapter driver versi Mge Emulators a Mg MicroVAX3100 Model 98 emulator Mg VAX 4000 Model 108 emulator Mg VAX 6310 emulator Mig VAXserver 3600 emulator 256Mb Mle VAXserver 3900 emulator 256Mb Mie Material Vie CHAPI version 5 17 13402 vig Idle MS package version 2 0 MG utilities CHARON Launcher version 1 23 CHARON Service Manager versioi HASP View Version 1 0 2 0 HASP_HL_VIEW utility vers
146. thernet Pathworks 32 is recommended as a flexible tool for DECnet networking and X terminal and VT525 emulation in addition to its Windows VMS file access utility see Appendix Pathworks 32 The various VAX PDP11 models emulated in CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 provide the following characteristics for the Plus versions see chapter 1 5 VAX PDP11 Max SCSI VAXBI Qbus Earliest model memory Subsystem Subsystem Subsystem VMS RSX1 version MicroVAX Il 16 MB No No Yes 4 5 MicroVAX 64 MB No No Yes 4 5 3600 Overview 2 VAX PDP11 Max SCSI VAXBI Qbus Earliest model memory Subsystem Subsystem Subsystem VMS RSX1 version MicroVAX 64 MB No No Yes 4 5 3900 VAXserver 512 MB No No Yes 4 5 3600 VAXserver 512 MB No No Yes 4 5 3900 MicroVAX 128 MB Yes No No 5 5 2H4 3100 96 VAX4000 128 MB Yes No Yes 5 5 2H4 106 MicroVAX 512 MB Yes No No 5 5 2H4 3100 98 VAX4000 512 MB Yes No Yes 5 5 2H4 108 VAXstation 128 MB Yes No No 5 5 2H4 4000 90 VAX6000 512 MB No Yes No 5 5 2 310 PDP11 93 4 MB No No Yes 4 1 PDP11 94 4 MB No No Yes 4 1 Consider the following when selecting emulated controllers SCSI disk devices are seen as DKA or DKB devices and MSCP RQDX3 KDB50 disk devices as DUA DUB etc For convenience and considering the existing VAX VMS configuration you may wish to select DK or DU devices SCSI commands directly address the hardware with direct SCSI addressing Thus direct SCSI addressing may be appropriate
147. thus less disruptive than using parallel multiple file copy from Windows explorer 3 11 1 The RQDX3 MSCP Controller The CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 QBUS systems provide support for RQDX3 disk controllers The original RQDX3 disk controller is capable of serving up to 4 disk units CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 extend this limit so that the RQDX3 disk controller can be configured with up to 256 disk units Normally all 256 disks can be connected to one MSCP disk controller but if an application does intensive simultaneous IO to more than 16 disks on one MSCP controller it is recommended to configure additional RQDX3 controllers Use the following command to load an instance of an RQDX3 disk controller LOAD RODX3 lt logical name gt Example load RQDX3 DUA Note that the specification of RQDX3 DLL can be omitted in this case since the name of the device is the same as the name of the DLL The RQDX3 offers the following configuration parameters which can be specified with the SET command Parameter Type Value CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 46 Parameter Type Address Numeric max n of units Numeric container N Character N 0 9999 media_type N Character N 0 9999 Value Specifies the CSR address The address must be a valid QBUS 22 bit wide address in IO space Initial value is 017772150 which is the factory setting for the RQDX3 disk controller Specifies the maximum number of units supported by t
148. tion file contact your software supplier or Stromasys SA Q am unsure about when and if geometry has to be specified for my disk images A The geometry command was implemented for compatibility with early versions of VMS CHARON VAX XX starting from the version 1 2 will determine the disk geometry for real disks and disk images from the physical characteristics of the disk so you should not need to specify the disk geometry anymore Q have configured several disks on the same device of an emulated SCSI controller by using logical unit numbers but the devices are not visible in VMS A Use the connect command in VMS as described in the chapter of this manual on CHARON VAX XX disk drives Q cannot save the boot parameters of my emulated VAX PDP11 from run to run A Make sure you have defined files to hold the time of year TOY parameters and read only memory ROM parameters VAX only Make sure that no corrupted versions of these files exist If no file of that name exists CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 will create the TOY or ROM container file if required Start the emulator and use the SRM console VAX to set the boot parameters you need Do not boot the operating system Exit from the emulator and check that a ROM file has been saved CHARON VAX XX will only save a ROM file if you have changed the any ROM parameters Re enter CHARON VAX XX and check that the boot parameters you need have been saved Boot the operating system a
149. tion of TUK50 DLL can be omitted in this case since the name of the device is the same as the name of DLL The TUK50 has the following configuration parameters which can be specified with the SET command Parameter Type Value address Numeric Specifies the CSR address The address must be a valid UNIBUS 18 bit wide address in IO space Initial value is 0774500 which is the factory setting for TUK50 tape controllers container N String Specifies the location of the tape container It can be either the name of a VTAPE MTD file or the name of a physical tape N 0 9999 ie Tapex for the local physical tape drive SCSI for which a driver is loaded Direct SCSI addressing may be used if no Windows driver is available CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 50 media type N Character Overrides default automatically determined MSCP media type N 0 9999 of the device Syntax lt device name gt lt device type gt Where lt device name gt is one of MU MK SCSI MI DSSI or MJ lt device type gt is of the form LLD or LLLD where L is letter from A through Z and D is decimal number from 0 through 99 If not specified device name is set to MU and device type is set to TK50 Initially not specified Example load TUK50 MUA set MUA container 0 Tape2 set MUA container 1 C charon tapes tapel mtd set MUA container
150. tly assign the ADDRESS and VECTOR parameters See also the CHARON VAX and CHARON PDP11 Application Notes on Configuring devices on the Qbus Example 1 CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 40 load DHV11 TXA address 017760440 vector 0300 load DHV11 TXB address 017760460 vector 0310 Example 2 load DHW42CA DHV11 TXA Note that while the serial line multiplexers require loading the UART QUART console is preloaded by CHARON VAX XX and CHARON PDP11 3 10 1 Mapping emulated serial lines to the host Once the serial controllers are loaded UART QUART do not need loading their lines can be mapped to physical COM ports of your system or to terminal emulators The syntax is the following load lt type of serial line gt lt DLL name gt lt serial controller instance name gt set lt serial controller instance name gt line lt line number gt lt name gt Some tips on configuring physical serial lines for use with CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 Open Computer Management select Device Manager open Ports COM amp LPT select the desired COM port open the Properties dialogue select the tab Port Settings then click Advanced There you will see FIFO settings Set the TX FIFO depth to 1 lowest possible Otherwise CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 are not able to properly detect when the TX FIFO is empty For the same reason it is strongly recommend not enabling the option COMPLETE WRITE REQUESTS IMMEDIATELY Types of serial li
151. to custom design emulated Qbus peripherals To enable CHAPI modules request an update to the CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 license For details on CHAPI read the CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 CHAPI user manual available from the CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 website CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 84 Use the following command to load an instance of an LPV11 Parallel Line Printer controller load CHAPI lt logical name gt d11 LPVv11 Example load CHAPI LPAO d11 LEV11 The LPV11 being a CHAPI component provides the following configuration parameters to be specified with a SET command Parameter Type Value Address Numeric Specifies the CSR address The address must be a valid QBUS 22 bit wide address in IO space Initial value is 017777514 which is the factory setting for the LPV11 Vector Numeric Specifies the interrupt vector Initial value is 0200 which is the factory setting for the LPV11 Parameters Character Specifies the name of the file to which the LPV11 prints the text the name of a physical printer or a TCPIP port to connect to external utility like HOSTprint along with some additional parameters LPT lt n gt physical port to connect to a physical printer port TCPIP port to connect to external application application application to run after creating the port Note that the name of the application including its own parameters must be framed with symbol It s possible to load as many LPV
152. tring value with a special format specifies the N 0 7 explicit geometry of the disk storage element with DSSI node id N and MSCP unit number N This parameter is not applicable to tape storage elements The string format is lt X gt lt Y gt lt Z gt where e X is number of sectors on track e Yis number of tracks on cylinder e Z optional is the number of cylinders on the unit If omitted Z is calculated based on X Y and the total number of sectors on the unit that reflects the size of the disk storage element If this parameter is not set CHARON VAX will configure the geometry based on the most probable disk type use io file buffering N boolean Enables use of host OS O buffering N 0 7 Initially set to NO buffering disabled removable N boolean Enables the logical unit to appear as removable SCSI disk N 0 7 drive Initially set to NO fixed non removable Example load virtual_scsi_disk chscsi pka 0 scsi_bus pka scsi_id 0 set pka 0 container 0 C Charon disk1 vdisk set pka 0 container 1 PhysicalDrivel This second string associates the 1 unallocated SCSI drive disk in Windows with device pka 0 CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 55 If only one LUN is configured the LUN number can be omitted set pka 0 container C Charon disk1l vdisk set pka 0 media type RZ1ED When virtual SCSI disk image is dismounted in VMS it is no longer read by CHARON VAX and ma
153. ts up to 256 disks instead of the 4 disk limitation in the original hardware The 256 devices are recognized by the VAX VMS operating system This design modification has the advantage to utilize only one VAXBI slot for up to 256 disk and tape devices The I O behavior of the virtual KDB50 is as follows e Up to 16 connected disks operate in parallel without any I O performance degradation e For systems with more than 16 heavily used disks configure two controllers and distribute the heavily loaded disks evenly e As in the hardware KDB50 VMS can be booted only from the first 10 devices on the KDB50 DUO DUS CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 74 3 14 1 KDB50 configuration parameters Load parameter Function KDB50 This command creates an instance of the KDB50 MSCP controller and associates it with a logical name Example load KDB50 PUA Parameter vax bi node id container N N 0 9999 media type N N 0 9999 Type Numeric Character Character Value Specifies the VAXBI slot in which the virtual KDB50 controller is placed For CHARON VAX a free slot between 1 1 and 15 F must be chosen Initially set to 14 Specifies the location of the disk container It can be either the name of a VDISK DSK file or the name of a physical disk NAPhysicalDriveX for local fixed disks IDE SCSI SATA CdRomxX or lt Letter gt for CD ROM DVD drives
154. tual serial line chserial OPAO port 10003 application opa0 ht load virtual serial line chserial OPAO port 10003 application putty exe load OPAO set quart line 3 OPA0 The VAX 4000 Model 108 contains built in PCI SCSI adapter called PKA within the configuration file load virtual scsi disk pka 0 scsi_bus pka scsi_id 0 set pka 0 container lt file name gt vdisk load virtual scsi disk pka 1 scsi_bus pka scsi id 1 set pka 1 container PhysicalDrive0d set pka 1 container PhysicalDriveN Sample configuration files 122 Uncomment to connect the emulator s GKA200 to an unknown SCSI device load physical scsi device pka 2 scsi_bus pka scsi_id 2 set pka 2 containers NN NScsiN X Y Z load virtual scsi cdrom pka 3 scsi_bus pka scsi_id 3 set pka 3 container CdRom0 set pka 3 containers NN NCdRomN load virtual scsi cdrom pka 4 scsi_bus pka scsi id 4 set pka 4 container lt file name gt iso load physical scsi device pka 5 scsi_bus pka scsi id 5 set pka 5 container Tape0d set pka 5 container NapeN Sample configuration files 123 load virtual scsi tape pka 6 scsi_bus pka scsi id 6 set pka 6 container lt file name gt vtape If necessary load optional SCSI controller SCSI B PKB ATTENTION Old versions of VAX VMS older then 5 5 2H4 do not support optional SCSI controller and might fail to boot when SCSI option is loaded Uncomment to connect t
155. twork adapter specified in the configuration file is operates in auto sense or any mode that can result in a connection speed over 10 Mbps Hardware PDPs VAXes and CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 version 1 did not support a Network speed in excess of 10 Mbps The host system performance influences potential packet loss With a faster Network card the CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 packet port can deliver too many packets to the emulator more than the VAX PDP11 Operating System running under the emulator may be able to process This causes packets to be dropped or a protocol times out Even connection oriented protocols with re transition logic can be broken because the number of re transition attempts can be exceeded Eventually VMS may disable the network card as a result of repeated errors that will be seen as a network hang up Note that hardware VAX systems react the same way in case of traffic overload Q have been using CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 and wish to reset the MAC address of my Ethernet adapter Or have found that after using CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 on two systems the MAC address on the Ethernet FAQ and troubleshooting 140 adapters is set to the same value and this is disrupting my Network traffic how can correct this A Open the properties of your Network adapter e Select Configure e Select advanced e Select Network address e Click on Not present to reset it to the default address The MAC address
156. ty Disk Management Control Panel Administrative Tools Computer Management Disk Management you can verify that Windows has not allocated the disks If the required disk has a Windows CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 45 system present use the disk management tool to delete the partition i e remove the Windows file system and thus release the disk Physical tapes used by CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 must be disabled in the Windows media pool Go to Control Panel Administrative Tools Computer Management Removable Storage Media Select the device click on the Properties icon and de select the enable media check box A driver is required to address physical disks or tapes using the MSCP controller Direct SCSI addressing may be attempted when a Windows driver is not available for a SCSI tape controller When a tape or disk image connected to an emulated TMSCP or MSCP controller is dismounted in VMS RSX11 RT11 it is disconnected from CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 and may be manipulated It may even be replaced with a different disk image provided it has the same name This capability can be useful when designing back up and restore procedures If copying CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 disk images while CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 is running take care to minimize the risk of overloading a heavily loaded CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 host system For example using a sequential series of simple ftp binary copies is less resource intensive and
157. ual DSSI cluster must be able to communicate to every other emulated SHAC host adapter in the same virtual DSSI cluster Such communication is performed over TCP IP links established between every two emulated SHAC host adapters CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 70 N A virtual DSSI cluster consisting of N emulated VAX 4000 nodes has gt such links Each end of the link is identified by the pair cTCP IP HOST NAME5 zTCP IP PORT NOS Hence on HOST A the CHARON VAX configuration file describes connection to HOST B as follows set PAA port DSSI NODE ID B TCPIP PORT A FOR B set PAA host DSSI NODE ID B HOST B TCPIP PORT B FOR A And on HOST B the CHARON VAX configuration file describes connection to HOST A as follows set PAA port DSSI NODE ID A TCPIP PORT B FOR A set PAA host DSSI NODE ID A HOST A TCPIP PORT A FOR B Next every emulated SHAC host adapter must also connect to all emulated storage controllers on the same virtual DSSI bus This is similar to the non clustered configurations described before except for the MSCP allocation class The VAX Cluster architecture requires every VAX node participating in the cluster be assigned the MSCP allocation class The same requirement applies to DSSI storage controllers which are also nodes on the DSSI Therefore when configuring an instance of an emulated HSD50 storage controller the MSCP allocation class for that controller mu
158. us for Windows v4 1 13402 CHARON YAXAXM Plus product Needs C CHARON VAXAXK Plus for Windows v4 1 13402 CHARON VAXAXK Plus product Needs CJ CHARON VAXZXL for Windows v4 1 13402 CHARON VAXZ L product Needs a HA NG PASIYA ree Ses rein scree CHARON VAX lt L Plus product Needs TJ CHARON VAX 6610 Plus for Windows v4 1 13402 CHARON VAX 6610 Plus product Neec TJ CHARON VAX 6620 Plus for Windows v4 1 13402 CHARON VAX 6620 Plus product Neec CJ CHARON VAX 6630 Plus for Windows v4 1 13402 CHARON VAX 6630 Plus product Neec C CHARON VAX 6660 Plus for Windows v4 1 13402 CHARON VAX 6660 Plus product Neec iso eae The products marked with red cannot be installed on the systems because of the hardware requirements It s possible to get more details by pointing by the cursor at the target product name in the list Press Next to continue The installation procedure will display the EULA license Please read it carefully select Agree if you agree with the terms of the license and then press the button Next Cancel the installation procedure with the Cancel button if you are disagree with the terms of the license CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 installation 10 A CHARON Installation Wizard End User Software License and Limited Warranty x End User Software License and Limited Warranty SIROMASKS VIRTUALIZATION This is an agreement between Stromasys SA of Geneva Switzerland Licensor and a you th
159. w mode1 VAX 4000 Model 108 set session log vax002 10g set toy container vax002 dat set rom container vax002 rom load virtual serial line OPAO port 10003 application opa0 ht set PAA port 1 11021 host 1 castor 11012 load HSD50 DISKS dssi host PAA dssi node id 3 set DISKS scs system id 3238746238 mscp allocation class 1 set DISKS container 0 2 H ourdisks dua0 rz24 vms v6 2 vdisk set DISKS container 1 H ourdisks dual rz24 vms v6 2 vdisk set DISKS container 2 H ourdisks dua2 rz24 vms v6 2 vdisk set DISKS container 3 H ourdisks dua3 rz24 vms v6 2 vdisk Note that in the both configuration files the data related to the emulated HSD50 storage controller DISKS must be identical Not following this rule will very likely cause data corruption on the virtual disks In this respect note the explicit specification of SCS_SYSTEM_ID for the storage controllers As mentioned earlier CHARON VAX loads an initial default value for the SCS SYSTEM ID that is guaranteed to be unique within the running emulator But with two instances of the emulator these default values are likely to be different Therefore the SCS SYSTEM ID value must be specified explicitly for both emulated HSD50 storage controllers to obtain an identical value This example also assumes that drive H is a network share so that all disk images are accessible from both host machines Configuration Example 4 CHARON VAX XX CHARON
160. w the instructions below To install a virtual adapter firstly install srimux inf driver the same way as described above for the NDIS6 installation the driver is in the MUX_5 2 0 xxx folder under the Drivers directory Enable the CHARON Virtual LAN Adapter Protocol Driver on the selected network interface and choose Properties of the driver Select Add a Miniport and click Ok An additional Virtual Ethernet adapter will be created After enabling CHARON Virtual LAN Adapter Protocol Driver and Charon s Packet Protocol NDIS6 protocols the adapter is ready to be used by CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 installation 16 After system reboot come back to the Network and Dialup connections applet and check that Charon s Packet Protocol NDIS6 is present and enabled in the list of the installed components on the selected Network adapter Disable all other components since CHARON must have exclusive access to this network card 2 Obtain the NIC device name Open the Start Settings Network and Dial Up Connections configuration dialog Select the connection you want to use for CHARON networking click the right mouse button and open Connection s Properties applet Check that the CHARON Packet Protocol NDIS6 connection is the only one enabled Write down carefully or copy to the clipboard the connection name You will need to write exactly this connection name case sensitive
161. which the Nth line of the multiplexer is connected Specifies the type of communication over the Nth line of the multiplexer Two values are supported ASCII and BINARY Default value is ASCII Controls RTS signal of the Nth line of the multiplexer ON asserts the RTS signal OFF clears the RTS signal DTR asserts the RTS signal as soon as the DTR signal is asserted When left blank initial state the level of the RTS signal is as requested by the VAX PDP11 software ON always reports the DSR signal asserted OFF always reports the DSR signal reasserted DSR use the DSR signal of the physical serial line if configured CD DCD RLSD use the CD carrier detect signal of the physical serial line if configured Note This parameter is only applicable for DZV11 and DZQ11 Only for DHV11 Specifies depth of the TX FIFO for the Nth line of the multiplexer Possible values are 1 1000 initially it is set to 1 to properly represent the hardware limitation of certain multiplexers Values greater than 1 do improve the transmission rate of the corresponding line but break the correspondence to the original hardware Qbus multiplexers use the ADDRESS and VECTOR parameters Both ADDRESS and VECTOR parameter values must be unique for every instance of a QBUS multiplexer Read the VAX PDP11 hardware documentation and the VMS RSX11 Rt11 system management documentation to understand how to correc
162. work To connect storage controller to virtual DSSI network the CHARON VAX configuration file must load at least one emulated HSD50 storage controller In most cases one emulated HSD50 storage controller per virtual DSSI network is enough When loading an instance of emulated HSD50 storage controller the CHARON VAX configuration file must supply a unique reference name for that instance While this name is only valid within the configuration file it is recommended for clarity that the VMS SCSNODENAME is used as instance name The line below loads an emulated HSD50 storage controller and assigns it the instance name MYDISKS and connects it to the primary built in DSSI controller load HSD50 DISKS dssi_host PAA The HSD50 emulation has the following configuration parameters as per CHARON configuration file syntax all integer values can be entered in Hex Decimal or Octal form Parameter Type Value dssi_host_name Character A string value which specifies the instance name of emulated SHAC host adapter serving the same virtual DSSI network If this value is not set CHARON VAX will try to locate the host adapter automatically This automatic lookup works only if the CHARON VAX configuration has exactly one instance of an emulated SHAC host adapter dssi_node_id Numeric An integer value which specifies the address of an emulated HSD50 storage controller on the virtual DSSI network Possible values are from 0 through 7 initially set t
163. x fifo size Numeric rx fifo size sets the receive FIFO size The value is specified in Kb and by default is pre calculated from the connected port s size of receive queue Typically you don t need to change the rx fifo size parameter It is available for extended tuning and bug hunting purposes Examples set EXA vax bi node id 11 set EXA station_address XX XX XX XX XX XX Any of the above set parameters can also be incorporated in the load Example load DEBNI DEMNA EXA vax bi node id 11 command Assuming that the network packet port see next paragraph is defined as EXAO the following command connects the configured DEBNI with this logical packet port set EXA interface EXA0 It is recommended to use Network Control Center to get the correct configuration lines or to refer to sample configuration files If your VAX VMS system disk is configured for automatic TCP IP startup and you use UCX not loading an Ethernet adapter in the CHARON VAX configuration can cause a VMS crash The problem appears only if UCX is enabled while the networking device is missing DECnet works correctly CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 configuration 87 3 15 5 Network interface Use the LOAD command to create an instance of the NDIS6 packet port and to connect it to the hardware network card Parameter Type Value Interface Character Host system Interface name Mandatory parameter load packet port chnetwrk lt log
164. y be copied This capability can be useful when designing back up and restore procedures If copying CHARON VAX disk images while CHARON VAX is running take care to minimize the risk of overloading a heavily loaded CHARON VAX host system For example using a sequential series of simple ftp binary copies is less resource intensive and thus less disruptive than using parallel multiple file copy from Windows explorer Note that unlike MSCP controlled disk images a disk image connected to a SCSI controller as a virtual SCSI disk may NOT be replaced by another disk image 3 12 2 virtual scsi tape Use virtual scsi tape for tape containers This is the most convenient way of connecting tapes to SCSI adapters of CHARON VAX XX virtual scsi tape has the following parameters Parameter Type Value container N character A string containing the full path to a tape container N N 0 7 stands for logical unit number It must begin with O and must have no gaps If only a name of the tape container is specified CHARON VAX XX will look for the container or created it in the installation directory in the directory Build_ lt xxx gt x86 If the specified tape image does not exist CHARON VAX XX creates it media_type N character Overrides PRODUCT ID in the default SCSI INQUIRY N 0 7 kaa Valid values may contain uppercase letters decimal figures spaces Length of string shall not exceed 16 characters By default the PRODUCT ID returned is
165. y up to 100KHz The software KW11 P implementation is limited to 1KHz due to Windows limitations it can programmed to interrupt at any frequency up to 1KHZ Note that the current implementation does not contain time slip recovery from the host system time This can lead to time skew between the emulated and host system time when the programmed frequencies are not devisors of 1000 The KW11 P is loaded automatically It does not have any configuration file parameters as it is set by the PDP 11 software 3 9 VAX PDP11 console ports CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 implement a one or a four port serial console depending on the VAX PDP11 model The four line serial line controller is identified within CHARON VAX XX with the name QUART The one line serial line controller is identified within CHARON VAX XX CHARON PDP11 with the name UART QUART is used in SCSI e g MicroVAX 3100 model 96 98 VAXstation 4000 model 90 and SCSI Qbus systems e g VAX4000 model 106 108 The last line of the QUART line 3 is the VAX PDP11 Console port known in VAX VMS as OPAO UART is used in Qbus only systems e g the MicroVAX VAXserver 3600 3900 PDP11 93 PDP11 94 The CHARON VAX CHARON PDP11 console ports can be configured to connect to an external terminal via a host system COM port or can be connected to a process via TCP IP UART QUART Parameters Note that lt line gt is applicable only in the case of QUART Parameter Type Value RTS lt line gt C

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