Migration to CHARON-VAX and CHARON-PDP for Windows
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Introduction
This section describes how to migrate your VAX system to CHARON-VAX. We will use a sample MicroVAX 3600 system to demonstrate the migration procedure. The process is similar for all CHARON-VAX models.
CHARON-PDP/11 migration is done in similar way except for the step of acquiring the QBUS addresses and vectors directly from console. Instead this information should be collected directly from the RSX11/RT11 operating system installed on the host to be migrated. Please refer to the RSX11/RT11 User's Guide for guidelines.
If CHARON-VAX based virtual system needs to be created from scratch, refer to this Application Note describing how to find proper Qbus addresses and Vectors for each virtul device.
Creating CHARON Virtual Machine
As a first step it is required to create a CHARON Virtual Machine (VM) using the CHARON Virtual Machine Manager in the following way:
Press the "Create VM from Template" button:
Specify the HP VAX model to be emulated and the name of the VM then press the "Create" button:
The VM will be created:
Select the VM from the left pane and press the "Edit Configuration" button:
The VM configuration file will be opened in Notepad. Now the file can be updated to reproduce the target HP VAX configuration.
Collecting information about the source VAX system
The first step is to determine the exact configuration of your VAX hardware in order to create the CHARON VM configuration file.
Turn on your source VAX system. At the ">>>" prompt, issue the "show qbus" and "show device" commands:
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