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

[Mark Wickens]

On Friday, 11 December 2015, Mark Pizzolato <Mark at infocomm.com> wrote:

> You don't mention the host OS??
>

Sorry, the Alpha is running OpenVMS 8.3 and the VAX is running 7.3.


> 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
> (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$$
>
>
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