Running CHARON-AXP for Linux

CHARON-AXP symbolic links

Use the following symbolic link to run different models of CHARON-AXP:

Link name	Emulator to run
as400	AlphaServer 400
as800	AlphaServer 800
as1000	AlphaServer 1000
as1000a	AlphaServer 1000A
as2000	AlphaServer 2000
as2100	AlphaServer 2100
as4000	AlphaServer 4000
as4100	AlphaServer 4100
ds10	AlphaServer DS10
ds10l	AlphaServer DS10L
ds15	AlphaServer DS15
ds20	AlphaServer DS20
ds25	AlphaServer DS25
es40	AlphaServer ES40
es45	AlphaServer ES45
gs80	AlphaServer GS80
gs160	AlphaServer GS160
gs320	AlphaServer GS320

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Running CHARON-AXP emulators

It is possible to run one or several instances of CHARON-AXP at the same time if your license allows it.

For multiple instances, please use only absolute paths and unique names to all the files referenced in the configuration file of each CHARON-AXP instance (log, toy clock, rom files and all the other data such as disk images (Exception: clustering) - all these objects to be discussed later in this document). Also, hardware devices (e.g., CD-ROM) may be used by only one instance at a time (not shared).

For example:

...

set session log="/CharonInstances/1st_es40.log"
set rom container="/CharonInstances/1st_es40.bin"
set toy container="/CharonInstances/1st_es40.dat"

load KZPBA PKA scsi_id = 7
set PKA container[0]="/CharonInstances/1st_es40_boot_disk.vdisk"

...

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

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Running from the console

Copy the configuration template from "/opt/charon/cfg/" directory to some local file and set the correct privileges to that file to be able to edit it:

$ cp /opt/charon/cfg/es40.cfg.template my_es40.cfg
$ chmod 644 my_es40.cfg

Now let's execute CHARON using this template configuration file:

$ es40 my_es40.cfg