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The CHARON installation procedure creates a shortcut on the desktop and under "Start" menu for the CHARON Virtual Machines Manager.
Desktop shortcut:
"Start" menu shortcut:
CHARON Virtual Machines Manager runs automatically at Windows startup. If it is minimized to tray after you can run it from the tray menu in the following way:
After clicking the shortcuts the main dialog of CHARON Virtual Machines Manager appears.
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Start CHARON Virtual Machines Manager (see above) and press the "Create VM from Template" button:
In the appearing dialog select the VAX/PDP11 hardware model:
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The created Virtual Machine will appear in the list of Virtual Machines (left pane):
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Start CHARON Virtual Machines Manager (see above) and press the "Create Add Existing VM from Cfg" button:
In the appearing dialog select the target configuration file by pressing the "Browse" button:
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The created Virtual Machine will appear in the list of Virtual Machines (left pane):
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Select the target CHARON VM in the left pane and press the "Start" button:
CHARON Virtual Machines Manager will display the execution log:
Note the color meaning:
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Select the target CHARON VM in the left pane and press the "Stop" button. A dialog will appear to confirm, select "Yes" to continue to stop the VM:
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It is also possible to remove a CHARON VM completely by selecting it and pressing the "Remove VM" button:
The Virtual machine has to be stopped before removing it (see Stopping a CHARON Virtual Machine chapter above)
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Select the target CHARON VM and switch to the "VM Configuration" tab to see its features:
Alternatively it is possible to select the target CHARON VM and press the "Change VM" button:
Using this dialog it is possible to:
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Press the "Explore" button to open up a Windows Explorer window showing content of the selected CHARON VM home folder:
This content includes CHARON VM configuration file, and may also include virtual disk and tape images, logs, ROM files etc.
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It is very convenient to use the "Create Virtual Disk" button to create empty disk images in the CHARON VM Home Directory:
The MkDisk utility will be called for this operation:
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Press the "Edit Configuration file" button to open the CHARON VM configuration file in Windows default text editor:
Alternatively it is possible to select the target CHARON VM and press the "Change VM" button:
The configuration file specifies all the settings of the CHARON VM. It will be discussed in the next chapter.
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Select the CHARON VM startup behavior in the "Startup type" drop down list:
By default this setting is set to "Manual"; it assumes that a user should run CHARON VM manually from CHARON Virtual Machines Manager after a host reboot. If the CHARON VM has to start automatically, select the "Automatic" option.
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Select the target CHARON version from the "Executable" drop-down box and press the "Apply" button:
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Select the "Host Information & Utilities" tab to get a quick access to the most useful CHARON utilities:
Press the corresponding button to open up the target utility:
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