RE: Re: Unable to startup TurnKey MVS 3.8 after installation. Help needed.

This is VMWare which is Virtualization for the x86 and i64 platform and
allows multiple copies of "PC" Operating systems to be run simultaneously on
a single box. 

In the past the main reason for running MVS under VM was that it allowed a
single mainframe to run multiple copies of MVS, typically one production,
one for testing roll outs, and one for development. On "real iron" it does
also provide enhanced debugging via VMs PER facility, but I think Hercules
has most of that facility on the Hercules console. In fact its been
suggested that the VM/XA was only produced because the MVS developers needed
it to help develop MVS/XA...

Dave
G4UGM
Illegitimi Non Carborundum


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of cedarlakebuzzards
> Sent: 01 May 2010 02:06
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [turnkey-mvs] Re: Unable to startup TurnKey MVS 3.8 
> after installation. Help needed.
> 
> 
> If I remember correctly, the MVS38j Turnkey is not set up to 
> run under VM.  I installed MVS the same way you did and run 
> it without VM.  I don't know what advantage running MVS as a 
> guest OS gets you.  It just seems to complicate things.
> 
> I put Hercules in a parallel directory (i.e. D:\Hercules and 
> D:\MVS38j)
> since I have several OS and standalone systems.   I did have 
> to manually
> adjust the path information to make things work in the .bat 
> files and config files.
> 
> Ed
> 
> --- In [email protected], "Anyanso" <pagwu@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hello group,
> >
> > I am unable to start after I have completed install of 
> Turnkey MVS OS.
> My situation is a follows:
> >
> > I am trying to install the MVS software in a Windows2003 
> (x32) server
> running under VMware 6.5 as a Guest OS. I installed Hercules 
> first and proceeded to download the turnkey package, 
> extracted from the turnkey-mvs-3.iso file, installed MVS 3.8 
> successfuly (I think). However, I am unable to startup MVS 
> 3.8. The error that I get when I click on startmvs is as follows:
> >
> > "'hercules' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file". Seems to me startmvs is not 
> finding Hercules directory or something like that?
> >
> > Can someone clue me in on what else I need to do to resolve this
> problem?
> >
> > Your help is highly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Phillips
> >
> 
> 
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