[HECnet] SIMH IDLE (again)

Ok, I got my main server rebuilt and so it's time to run some simh for testing (particularly the new user mode routing stuff). However, I'm still fighting this: wonko at zaphod$ BIN/vax VAX simulator V3.9-0 sim> set cpu idle Command not allowed sim> set cpu idle=VAX Invalid argument sim> I'd really like for IDLE to work so I can run several copies of simh without nuking my CPUs. Thoughts? I'm running the same version of simh under Alpha VMS 8.2 on an Alphaserver 800 and Alpha VMS 7.3-1 on an Alphaserver 1000A. set cpu idle works fine for me (however, set cpu idle=VAX is not correct - it should be set cpu idle=VMS). $ run [-.bin]VAX-AXP-NOASYNCH VAX simulator V3.9-0 sim> show cpu CPU, idle disabled, 16MB, HALT to SIMH sim> set cpu idle sim> show cpu CPU, idle=VMS, idle enabled, stability wait = 20s, 16MB, HALT to SIMH sim> set cpu idle=vms sim> show cpu CPU, idle=VMS, idle enabled, stability wait = 20s, 16MB, HALT to SIMH sim> Perhaps there is a host platform specific problem with set cpu idle? I would also like to run multible instances of simh. This works fine for me as long as only one of them tries to do networking. Once I attempt to start networking on a second instance, the networking on the first instance stops working. This makes it difficult to run a vaxcluster on my alpha :-( Regards, Peter Coghlan.