Re: NetBSD/vax vm for github testing

On Fri, 2025-01-03 21:02:50 +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2025-01-03 18:32:00 +0000, David Brownlee <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Much kudos and a starting contribution towards a suitable amount of caffeine
> > ($100) for anyone up for the challenge :)
> 
>   Installing the resulting ISO in a microvax3900 SIMH VM is easy as
> well (doing that all the time with a simple expect script.) Running
> something in there might be a bit fiddly (some masquerading /
> forwarding needed), and we need to keep in mind that the newest
> (pkgsrc) version of Python isn't yet/any longer supporting VAX.
> 
>   So if there are some docs about what _is_ there to use and what kind
> of interface for the CI "driver" is needed, it's probably not hard to
> do, though will require a few cycles to properly cook...

Well, it would be helpful if a Github CI VM could attach an additional
disk (containing a NetBSD VAX disk image.)  Open-SIMH microvax3900
could be built on the fly, some iptables (or whatever) rules to
forward traffic could easily be setup, but the VAX NetBSD disk image
would take quite some time to prepare. That's probably not feasible
for within a Perl test run...

MfG, JBG

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