Purpose of this Document

 This This document covers Charon-PAR version 23.1.0. For older other versions, please refer to the documentation included with the respective installation packagerelevant documentation of your product version.

This user's guide covers all aspects of selecting a suitable environment (hardware and software) to run the Charon-PAR emulator. It also describes all tasks involved with installing, configuring, and running the Charon-PAR emulator.

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• While this document will cover guest system specific configuration aspects where required, it does not cover the management of the guest system (MPE/iX and HP-UX).
• It also does not cover the migration of a physical HP server PA-RISC system to an emulated system. If you require migration support, please contact your Stromasys representative or a Stromasys partner.

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• Charon-PAR: general name for this Charon emulator product.
• Charon-PAR/PA3: functionality of the Charon-PAR product emulating historic HP3000 hardwarePA-RISC systems for MPE/iX.
• Charon-PAR/PA9-64 and Charon-PAR/PA9-32: functionality of the Charon-PAR product emulating historic HP9000 hardwarehistoric PA-RISC systems for HP-UX. Here, PA9-64 denotes the 64-bit emulator, PA9-32 the 32-bit emulator.

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• Virtual Hardware Supported by Charon-PAR: basic overview of amount of memory and maximum number of CPUs supported by the different emulated models. Details for each model are provided in Emulated Model Hardware Configuration Details.
• Charon-PAR Prerequisites: requirements that must be fulfilled by the host system before Charon can be installed.
• Charon-PAR Software Installation: installation packages overview and installation steps.
• Charon-PAR Guest Instance Basic Configuration and OS Installation: basic steps of setting up a CHARON-PAR/PA3 system (emulates historic HP3000 hardware) or PA-RISC hardware for MPE/iX), or a Charon-PAR/PA9 system (emulates historic HP9000 hardware) systemPA-RISC hardware for HP-UX), and a sample HP-UX installation.
• Serial Line Emulation Notes: information about how to set up different terminal emulators.
• Emulator configuration details:
  • Guest System Autoboot
  • Adding Additional Disks
  • Physical and Virtual Tape Access
  • Adding Generic SCSI Devices
  • Configuration File Reference
• Charon-PAR Command-Line Options: command-line options provided by the Charon-PAR emulator image.
• HP-UX Graphical Connection via X-Server: configuration details for host and guest system.
• File Transfer to and from Guest Operating System: hints on different file transfer methods that may be useful during a migration situation.
• Upgrading the Charon-PAR Software and Deinstalling the Charon-PAR Software
• License Management Overview for Charon-PAR: overview of the different tools available for license management and important configuration options.
• Charon-PAR Utilities: description of additional command-line utilities.
• Emulated System Firmware Functions: overview of options available on the console of an emulated system.
• HP3000 Command Files & UDCs: additional tools provided on the MPE pre-installed disk.

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