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Starting the Emulated System
Once the emulated SPARC system has been configured, you can start the emulated system.
An emulated system can be started
- interactively via the Charon Manager, or
- as a service during host system startup.
Interactive Start
An emulated system can be started interactively from the Charon Manager. There are three different options inside the Charon Manager to start an emulated system:
- Click on the blue triangle at the top of the Charon Manager window.
- Right-click on the virtual machine and select Run Virtual Machine from the context menu.
- Select the virtual machine. Then select the Summary tab and click on the Run Virtual Machine button at the bottom of the summary page.
The image below shows the three options:
After the system has been started, the built-in console and the emulator log are displayed in Charon Manager.
The image below shows the console prompt of an emulated SPARC system:
The Log tab allows the user to view the different log files produced by the emulator. The example below shows a view of the emulator log file:
Start with Host System Startup
The model configuration screen in Charon Manager allows to automatically start the emulated system when the host system starts, as shown below.
The guest operating system must be shut down cleanly before stopping the emulator when the host system is shut down. Failing to do so may cause corruption of the guest Tru64 or VMS system.
Stopping the Emulated System
After shutting down the guest operating system cleanly, you can stop the emulator in Charon Manager:
- Select the emulated system you want to stop.
- Click on the red square at the top of the window.
Alternatively, you can also stop the emulator by typing poweroff at the console prompt.
Suspending the Emulated System
The emulated system can be suspended. This means that the memory content of the system is saved. Use the pause symbol at the top of the Charon Manager window to suspend the system as shown in the image below:
At the next start, the emulated system will start with the status it had when it was suspended.
The snapshot files are saved in the /charon/storage/ssp-snapshot directory.