[HECnet] Re: Issues booting a satellite VAX/SIMH instance off AlphaVM-Free

You don't mention the host OS??

On Dec 11, 2015 10:04 AM, Mark Wickens <mark at wickensonline.co.uk <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mark at wickensonline.co.uk');>> wrote: Just thought I'd try and pick the brains of the collective wisdom if possible. I had a networking performance issue with AlphaVM-Free (poor ping rates and sluggish network performance) that has kindly been solved by Artem in the latest release and therefore my attention turns to the issue with a VAX satellite node network booting off the AlphaVM-Free instances (which I can no longer attribute to the same performance issue). Back in the 'real world' the boxes that supported this configuration were an AlphaServer 1000/A and a VAXstation 4000/60. In the emulated world they are now an AlphaVM-Free instance and a SIMH instance, both running on an HP DL380 Gen 5 with 6 x GB network adapters. Each of the emulated instances is mapped to a different physical network card. When I attempt to boot the emulated VAX from its' network adapter I get the following console messages. Boot appears to proceed but it is glacial. In the past I've given up long before ever receiving a login prompt on the VAX instance. Does anyone have experience with this kind of issue? It doesn't look like the emulated Alpha network adapter on the AlphaVM instance thinks that it is experiencing errors based on the output below. Thanks, Mark. %<------------------------- VAX console log Connected to the MicroVAX 3900 simulator CON-TEL device KA655X-B V5.3, VMB 2.7 Performing normal system tests. 40..39..38..37..36..35..34..33..32..31..30..29..28..27..26..25.. 24..23..22..21..20..19..18..17..16..15..14..13..12..11..10..09.. 08..07..06..05..04..03.. Tests completed. (BOOT/R5:0 XQA0 2.. -XQA0 1..0.. %VAXcluster, system loaded from node SLAVE (AA-00-04-00-F9-10) %VAXcluster, no connection to disk server %VAXcluster, no connection to disk server %VAXcluster, no connection to disk server %VAXcluster, no connection to disk server %VAXcluster, no connection to disk server %VAXcluster, no connection to disk server %SYSBOOT-I-SYSBOOT Mapping the SYSDUMP.DMP on the System Disk %SYSBOOT-I-SYSBOOT SYSDUMP.DMP on System Disk successfully mapped %SYSBOOT-I-SYSBOOT Mapping PAGEFILE.SYS on the System Disk %SYSBOOT-I-SYSBOOT SAVEDUMP parameter not set to protect the PAGEFILE.SYS OpenVMS (TM) VAX Version V7.3 Major version id = 1 Minor version id = 0 %VAXcluster, no connection to disk server %VAXcluster, no connection to disk server SLAVE %VAXcluster, attempting to reconnect to a disk server %VAXcluster, no connection to disk server %VAXcluster, attempting to reconnect to a disk server %VAXcluster, connected to disk server SLAVE %WBM-I-WBMINFO Write Bitmap has successfully completed initialization. %<------------------------- Alpha console log %%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 11-DEC-2015 17:45:34.47 %%%%%%%%%%% Message from user DECNET on SLAVE DECnet event 0.3, automatic line service From node 4.249 (SLAVE), 11-DEC-2015 17:45:34.47 Circuit EWA-0, Load, Requested, Node = 4.259 (ALEPH) File = ALEPHSYSTEM$:[SYS0.], Operating system, Ethernet address = 08-00-2B-2C-20 -6E %%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 11-DEC-2015 17:46:01.70 %%%%%%%%%%% Message from user DECNET on SLAVE DECnet event 0.3, automatic line service From node 4.249 (SLAVE), 11-DEC-2015 17:46:01.70 Circuit EWA-0, Load, Successful, Node = 4.259 (ALEPH) File = ALEPHSYSTEM$:[SYS0.], Operating system, Ethernet address = 08-00-2B-2C-20 -6E Username: %PEA0, Port has Closed Virtual Circuit - REMOTE NODE ALEPH Username: %PEA0, Port has Closed Virtual Circuit - REMOTE NODE ALEPH Username: %PEA0, Port has Closed Virtual Circuit - REMOTE NODE ALEPH Username: system Password: 01010011 01001100 01000001 01010110 01000101 +-+-+-+-+-+ |S|L|A|V|E| +-+-+-+-+-+ Welcome to SLAVE running OpenVMS AXP 8.3 SLAVE is a member of the HALO Cluster Strictly non-commercial use only Documentation is available at http://hpm.hecnet.eu/wiki/ Last interactive login on Friday, 11-DEC-2015 17:38:17.57 Last non-interactive login on Friday, 11-DEC-2015 17:44:08.37 SLAVE$$ show device pea0:/full Device PEA0:, device type NI_SCA, is online, shareable, error logging is enabled. Error count 576 Operations completed 0 Owner process "" Owner UIC [SYSTEM] Owner process ID 00000000 Dev Prot S:RWPL,O:RWPL,G,W Reference count 0 Default buffer size 0 Current preferred CPU Id 0 Fastpath 1 SLAVE$$ mcr ncp show known lines count Known Line Counters as of 11-DEC-2015 17:51:28 Line = EWA-0 654 Seconds since last zeroed 6522 Data blocks received 2589 Multicast blocks received 0 Receive failure 655620 Bytes received 372627 Multicast bytes received 0 Data overrun 3341 Data blocks sent 335 Multicast blocks sent 0 Blocks sent, multiple collisions 0 Blocks sent, single collision 0 Blocks sent, initially deferred 1529780 Bytes sent 42723 Multicast bytes sent 0 Send failure 0 Collision detect check failure 0 Unrecognized frame destination 0 System buffer unavailable 5 User buffer unavailable SLAVE$$