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The next stage can be either installation of new VAX/VMS system using a distributive provided by HP or transfer of data from some existing VAX system. These possibities will possibilities will be discussed in details in next chapters.

If for some reason CHARON-VAX refuses to start please look for files with .log extention extension (CHARON-VAX log files) located in the directory from which CHARON-VAX starts, open them in some editing tool and analyze their content. In most cases those files contain very helpful information on what may possible went wrong.

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To exit from CHARON-VAX emulator use the following methods:

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Copy the sample script "/opt/charon/bin/charon" ( "/opt/charon/bin/charon.service" for Fedora Core Linux ) to your home directory (Red Hat Linux) or to "/usr/lib/systemd/system/" directory (Fedora Core), for example:

/my_services 755 /my_services

Red Hat Linux	Fedora Core	`$`	`cp`	`/opt/charon/bin/charon`	`/my_services/mv3k6_service` `$`	`chmod`	`755`	`/my_services/mv3k6_service`
Fedora Core	`$`	`cp`	`/opt/charon/bin/charon.service`	`/usr/lib/systemd/system/mv3k6.service` `$`	`chmod`	`755 /usr/lib/systemd/system/mv3k6.service`

Edit the renamed file to replace sample values of the following parameters, for example:

Red Hat Linux	Fedora Core	`exec="/opt/charon/bin/mv3k6"` `prog="my_mv3k6"` `config="/my_services/mv3k6-service.cfg"`
Fedora Core	`ExecStart=/opt/charon/bin/mv3k6 -d /my_services/mv3k6-service.cfg` `WorkingDirectory=/my_services`

Create and edit configuration file ( "/my_services/mv3k6-service.cfg" in the examples above ) the way it was described before and make sure that the following pre-requisites are met:
- OPA0 must be configured as virtual port or physical console, not as operator console, for example:
  load virtual_serial_line OPA0 port=10003 #load operator_console OPA0
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- Use only absolute paths to log, toy clock, nvram files and all the other data such as disk images etc. The names of the references files must be unique too, for example
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  set session log="/my_services/my_mv3k6.log"
  set toy container="/my_services/my_mv3k6.dat"
  load RQDX3/RQDX3 DUA
  set DUA container[0]="/my_services/mv3k6_daemon_boot_disk.vdisk"
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- Make sure the same physical devices are not used by other CHARON-VAX daemons, same for the OPA0 console port number.

Once configuration file is ready issue the following commands (the specifics belongs to the examples above) to install and start CHARON-VAX as daemon:

Red Hat Linux

Fedora Core

#

ln

ln -sf /my_services/mv3k6_service /etc/init.d/mv3k6_service
# chkconfig mv3k6_service on
# service mv3k6_service start

Fedora Core

# systemctl enable

/my_services/

mv3k6.service
# systemctl start mv3k6.service

Warning

Note that a certain delay may appear in finding network license by Sentinel Run-time on CHARON-VAX host system startup. So if CHARON-VAX service is starting automatically on host system startup it may report "License not found" error and exit.

This problem can be avoided by specifying "license_key_lookup_retry" parameter in the following way:

set

session

license_key_lookup_retry

=

"N

[,

T]"

where:

N - Number of retries looking for license key (or keys)
T - Time between retries in seconds. If not specified 60 seconds is used

Example:

set

session

license_key_lookup_retry

=

5

In this example if the license key is not found during initial scan, CHARON-VAX will do 5 more attempts waiting 60 seconds between them.

See General Settings section for more details.

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Stopping CHARON-VAX service

To stop CHARON-VAX daemon use the following command, for example:

Red Hat Linux	Fedora Core	`# service mv3k6_service stop`
Fedora Core	`# systemctl stop mv3k6`

Please note that before stopping CHARON-VAX service, one must shutdown the operating system running by CHARON-VAX.

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To remove CHARON-VAX daemon use the following commands, for example:

Red Hat LinuxFedora Core

# chkconfig mv3k6_service off
# chkconfig --del mv3k6_service
# rm -f /etc/init.d/mv3k6_service

Fedora Core

# systemctl disable

/my_services

mv3k6.service # rm -f /usr/lib/systemd/system/mv3k6.service

Please note that before removing CHARON-VAX service one must shutdown the operating system running by CHARON-VAX and then stop corresponding CHARON-VAX service.

Please refer to the next chapters for more details concerning CHARON-VAX configuration details

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