菜单
Boot OpenVMS from the disk image in test/run-axpbox to verify end-to-end guest operation (SRM boot command, bootstrap, SYSINIT, startup to login). Use for deep verification after CPU/disk/timing changes.
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基于 SOC 职业分类
Port upstream ES40-Emu commits into axpbox. Use whenever the user asks to bring in, sync, or port changes from the es40 repo (github ES40-Emu/es40, local clone to /tmp/es40). Covers delta computation, wholesale-replace vs manual patching, the axpbox invariants (std:: threading, .hpp, clang-format, rebrand), and the verification gates.
Run the headless SRM firmware boot test (boots to P00>>> over telnet and diffs the console log). Use after any change to CPU, chipset, serial, or firmware code, and always once per verified stage of larger work.
Boot the ARC/AlphaBIOS console from a pre-programmed flash image with the S3 Trio64 on the SDL window. Use to verify the ARC/Windows-NT path (flash boot, nvram auto-arc script, S3 graphics).
Visually verify the S3/VGA/SDL render pipeline (framebuffer dumps, SRM-on-VGA text check) and test mouse/keyboard input paths. Use after graphics, GUI, S3, or input changes, or when a guest's VGA output needs inspection on a headless/WSLg host.
| name | boot-openvms |
| description | Boot OpenVMS from the disk image in test/run-axpbox to verify end-to-end guest operation (SRM boot command, bootstrap, SYSINIT, startup to login). Use for deep verification after CPU/disk/timing changes. |
Media lives in test/run-axpbox/:
openvms8.4-ww-welkom012.img — 6 GB pre-installed OpenVMS 8.4-2L1
system disk (boots from IDE as dqa0)ALPHA0842L1.ISO — OpenVMS 8.4 install CD (attach as ATAPI CD,
shows up as dqb0)This folder is gitignored. If the files do not exist, prompt the user to place them.
Never boot the user's image directly — OpenVMS writes to its system disk. Copy it first:
mkdir -p test/vms && cd test/vms
cp ../../test/run-axpbox/openvms8.4-ww-welkom012.img vms-disk.img
Config: test/vms/es40.cfg (memory.bits=28, ali_ide disk0.0 =
vms-disk.img, disk1.0 = the ISO read-only as cdrom, serial on
127.0.0.1:21000, skip_memtest_hack=true for speed).
test/vms/bootvms2.py drives the whole flow over telnet: waits for
P00>>>, sends boot dqa0, answers the VMS date prompt
(DD-MMM-YYYY HH:MM), and waits for a login-ish marker.
cd test/vms && pkill -9 -x axpbox; sleep 1
[ -f cl67srmrom.exe ] || wget -q -O cl67srmrom.exe 'http://raymii.org/s/inc/downloads/es40-srmon/cl67srmrom.exe'
../../build/axpbox run > vmsrun.log 2>&1 &
sleep 6
python3 bootvms2.py dqa0 900 vmscon.log # ~4 min to full startup
pkill -9 -x axpbox
sed 's/\x00//g' vmscon.log | tail -30
boot dqa0 → "block 0 of dqa0... is a valid boot block" →
"jumping to bootstrap code"OpenVMS (TM) Alpha Operating System, Version V8.4-2L1Please enter date and time (DD-MMM-YYYY HH:MM) — the welkom
image prompts on every boot (TIMEPROMPTWAIT); the script answers.Boot takes ~3–5 minutes on the interpreter. The whole run fits within
a 900 s script timeout. bootvms.py (same dir) is the shorter variant
that stops at the OpenVMS banner.
Cleanup: the 6 GB vms-disk.img copy is disposable and gitignored —
delete it when done if disk space matters.