On 03/12/2015 05:15 PM, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm wrote:
On Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Michael Huff wrote:
I have tried creating tar files and then mounting them as devices and/or
reading from them with tar but I haven't had any success. I've tried
googling and looking around, but I haven't figured out how to do this.
Tar files are simply streams of bytes. They are NOT simh tape files with built
in record sizes and tape marks. There may be tools to convert a tar file to a
simh structured tape, but I personally don't know of one. It wouldn't be too
hard to write a program to do that though. The simh tape structure is
documented in section A.3 of http://simh.trailing-edge.com/pdf/simh_doc.pdf
My host machine is Linux Mint/17/amd64 and I'm using the vax780
simulator with 4.3BSD, and I'm trying to work out how to get files and
and out of there (I haven't had any better luck with networking).
If you use the latest simh code from
https://github.com/simh/simh/archive/master.zip and you happen to have 2
network interfaces on your Linux Mint host machine you can easily get
networking working. If have two NICs I can walk you through the details.
Alternatively, bridged networking can be setup, but the details are
significantly more complicated...
- Mark
update -I talked to Mark off-list and he suggested I try setting up my
ethernet port, but that isn't practical with the way I have my home laid
out ( and can't change as I don't live alone).
So instead, I've played with trying to run a bridge over my wireless
(which didn't work) and creating a vde network interface. I've installed
libpcap-dev, the bridge utils, and the recommended vde packages.
I cut and pasted vde commands from the 0readme_ethernet.txt file and
this is the result I get:
sim> attach xq vde:/tmp/switch1
Non-existent device
So that's where I've gotten so far.
-Michael
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