Virtualbox and VMDK

[aussiesusan]

Environment: Windows 11 (fully patched) on an IntelNUC PC.
Installed VirtualBox 7.0.14r161095.

From the email I have downloaded the VMDK zip file and expanded ot to get the 2 VMDK files ('community' at 637 bytes, and 'community_flat' at 5.37GB).

Using the link in the email (https://d2h1r304.na1.hubspotlinks.com/C ... jf9fL1Z204) and following the 'Windows GUI' section, I get to the guide in step 2 (https://docs.vmssoftware.com/vsi-openvm ... eateVboxVM) but there my problem starts.

Step b) says to set the ISO image to the OpenVMS ISO file - is that the VMDK? If so which one?

If I try to use the VMDK image (either one) I get

Failed to open the disk image file C:\Users\Susan\Downloads\community.vmdk.

The medium 'C:\Users\Susan\Downloads\community.vmdk' can't be used as the requested device type (DVD, detected HDD).

Result Code:E_FAIL (0X80004005)
Component:MediumWrap
Interface:IMedium {ad47ad09-787b-44ab-b343-a082a3f2dfb1}
Callee:IVirtualBox {7682d5eb-f00e-44f1-8ca2-99d08b1cd607}
Callee RC:VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND (0X80BB0001)

What am I doing worng?

Susan

[vmsxpert]

1. @sys$manager:net$config.com (for decnet)
Enter the directory services to use on the system [DECdns,Local,Domain] :
can u please provide some inputs (which i can use to bring up the decnet as set h 0 is still not successful)

2. Enter Internet domain [x]: skc.com ----> this domain I put for namesake.(thats my name abrrevated.) but atleast i am getting like this:
Product: DECNET Node: ABHI Address(es): 1.1
Product: TCP/IP Node: abhi.skc.com Address(es): 192.168.1.23

My issue: I want to get successful "set h 0" which i m not getting now
$ set h 0
%RMS-F-DEV, error in device name or inappropriate device type for operation ---no clue which dev is going wrong here
$

3. I want to make this m/c for compilations so i m trying hard .later on i ll also instal licenses and products accdg to my need .

[sms]

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> [...]---no clue which dev is going wrong here

   I don't remember, but I'd bet that it's related to DECnet.

> can u please provide some inputs (which i can use to bring up the
> decnet as set h 0 is still not successful)

   RTFM?

https://docs.vmssoftware.com/vsi-openvms-decnet-plus-installation-and-configuration
https://docs.vmssoftware.com/vsi-openvms-decnet-plus-installation-and-configuration/#FAST_CONFIG

   As usual, I have no idea how you might have tried to configure DECnet
before now.

   Also, now that you have a working VM, a topic like "Re: Virtualbox
and VMDK" might not be the best place for these questions.

[cct]

TCPIP-CONFIG-LOG.txtI have setup the m/c now (through vmdk disks)and trying for tcpipconfig and decnet config .I am trying through these cmd procedures : @sys$manager:TCPIP$CONFIG.COM (for tcpip) and @sys$manager:net$config.com (for decnet).
But i am not able to start decnet though tcpip services i could start .
can anyone give me correct procedure to config both services . I have attached my logs .
$ tcpip ifconfig -a
IE0: flags=c43<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,SIMPLEX>
*inet 192.168.1.23 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 ipmtu 1500

LO0: flags=100c89<UP,LOOPBACK,NOARP,MULTICAST,SIMPLEX,NOCHECKSUM>
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000 ipmtu 4096

TN0: flags=80<NOARP>

TN1: flags=80<NOARP>

Look at section 4.2 Configuring VSI TCP/IP Services of the VMS 9.2-2 Installation guide:

https://docs.vmssoftware.com/vsi-openvm ... PIPandDHCP

[vmsxpert]

I m done with DECNET config now and quite getting what i wanted to get

$ set h 0

Welcome to OpenVMS (TM) x86_64 Operating System, Version V9.2-2

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Thanks

[drc68]

Is the machine in question a Windows machine? Has it ever run Hyper-V or WSL?

Sorry to be so late responding. Yes, the machine is a Windows machine, I have and use WSL regularly. I haven't had a chance to revisit this yet, unfortunately.

[gdwnldsksc]

If you have Hyper-V enabled / in use, you have to install the optional feature "Windows Hypervisor Platform" from the "Turn Windows features on or off" dialog box in order for any third party (such as virtualbox, VMware, etc) virtualization to work.

I've got Hyper-V, VMWare, and VB VMs running simultaneously on the same machine (and have for a few years now) After that is installed.

Without it, no third party virtualization system will work. (It allows those other products to bring their own hardware emulation along, but use Hyper-V as the CPU virtualization execution engine)

This is the preferred route compared to other guides and such that direct you to turn off Hyper-V, as Hyper-V underpins/implements a huge amount of Windows OS security functionality and you're greatly weakening your security posture by disabling it.

As you can imagine, having all three virtualization platforms enabled, my networking configuration is quite.... complicated. My PC with only four physical NICs believes it has 17 !