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Before starting the installation it is a good strategy to take inventory of the existing Alpha configuration, this will aid you when configuring the emulator. A normal "show device" listing from OpenVMS will be sufficient for this purpose. Also prepare a method for data transfer. Ethernet is the easiest and fastest way to do this. It allows you to make disk copies over the network. Make sure that the network addresses of both systems are different to avoid conflicts on the network. Place the CHARON-AXP installation CD in the CD-drive. Normally the system will startup automatically, but in case your system does not support that you can start the file setup.bat manually from the CD-ROM. Just follow the instructions from the installation procedure until completion. CHARON-AXP is now installed on your system. Also a user interface is installed that manages the emulator environment (configuring, license key management, start/stop emulator, utilities). When active this user interface appears as an icon in the windows tray (green: a emulator is running, red: all emulators are stopped, yellow: intermediate state). When the icon is not present the CHARON-AXP user interface has to be
started from the Windows START-menu manually. Right-click on the icon to call up the menu and manage CHARON-AXP.
The second menu window allows you to start or stop that particular Alpha configuration, edit its configuration file, view its log file and location. Delete removes a certain configuration file. Create and assign your Alpha disk images Click make disk image from the menu. This will present the following Window: Where you can select the disk type and location for the container file. These locations you can enter in the configuration file. System configuration allows you to reserve CPU's for IO for the
emulator instance(s). This section provides a quick configuration advise to get you started. For more detailed information about the possible settings of all configuration file parameters we refer to the configuration section of this electronic manual. Select Add Configuration from the menu. this will open a window where you can select the location and name of your configuration and log file (default example configuration files can be found in the directory you installed the emulator). Checking the option "Auto start" will start the Alpha Emulator
every time you start Windows. The "Auto restart" option will
perform a restart if the emulator stops for any reason. As many configurations as needed can be added to the tray icon, but the amount of configurations that can be started at a time depends on your license key. It is possible to run multiple emulators on a single host with a single license key, but the host system must have enough CPU cores and memory to emulate the Alpha's. Please note that when you run multiple instances on a single host you need to specify different TCP/IP ports for the OPA0 in the configuration file, otherwise it will not work due to conflicts. Open for example the configuration file AS4000.cfg which is to be found in the directory where you installed the software (typically /Program Files/CHARON-AXP/AS4000.cfg). After initial installation of the Alpha Emulator this configuration file contains a setup that you can use for first startup after adding a few values. Configuration lines that start with # are considered comment lines and ignored by the emulator on startup. For reasons of clarity we summarize the initial configuration file setup here, with only the uncommented lines. # Putty is a freeware terminal emulator delivered with CHARON-AXP #Define the system disk to install the operating system upon #Define the Ethernet adapter Replace the red marked sections <....> with the information you select. The Ethernet adapter name can be found in the properties window of the Ethernet adapter you plan to use. Please make sure that all communication options are disabled (unchecked) except for the option "Alpha Emulator Packet Protocol". This setup will allow you to start the Alpha emulator and perform a clean install of the operating system. This you will need to do to prepare the Alpha emulator to communicate with the original Alpha before you can copy the system and data disks contents. To add additional devices to this configuration file we refer to the configuration section of this document that describes the configuration options for each device in more detail. Place the Alpha operating system disk in the CD-ROM device and boot the Alpha emulator. Select a VT-terminal emulator for the OPA0 console As the OPA0-console you may connect a VT-terminal to a console port, using the standard COM-port of the host platform or connect via the LAN using a TCP-IP/port address. You may use a software VT-terminal emulator like Putty that is delivered with CHARON-AXP. We refer to the VT-terminal configuration instructions in the Configuration section of this manual to configure different VT emulators. |
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