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Creating CHARON Virtual Machine

As a first step it is required to create a CHARON Virtual Machine (VM) using CHARON Virtual Machines Manager in the following way:

Press the "Create VM from Template" button:

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Specify the HP Alpha model to be emulated and the name of the VM, press the "Create" button:

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The VM will be created:

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Select the VM and switch to the "VM Configuration" tab.

Press the "Edit Configuration file" button:

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The VM configuration file will be opened in Windows default text editor. Now we are ready to update this file to reprocude the target HP Alpha configuration.

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Collecting information about the source VAX system

The first step is to determine the exact configuration of your VAX hardware in order to create the CHARON-VAX configuration file.

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The source VAX configuration in this example is:

To find out the exact types of controllers please refer to the source VAX system documentation.

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Creation of CHARON-VAX configuration file

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Making disk images

In our example, possible mappings of RQDX3 and TQK50 tapes include physical devices and disk and tape images. Tape images should not be manually created, whereas you have to provision disk images, as described below.

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Start the "MkDisk" utility from the "Start" menu:

The main dialog of the utility will appear:

Select "VAX" in the "Select System" drop-down menu, "MSCP" in the "All Controllers" drop-down menu and "RZ24" (for example) in the "Select Disk Type" drop-down menu, then press "Create Disk Image" button:

The utility will ask you to specify the output file name. Select the "C:\My disks" directory created just before (or create it directly in the dialog) and press "Save" button:

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Installation of VAX operating system

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Then Enable the network and reboot. 

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