OpenVMS on x86 was made available to the first customer on May 15, 2020. With the 26-Aug Release V9.0-D, there are now 25 external users testing the system. The rollout plan is to continue adding at least five more customers for each of two additional releases in 2020. Given customer feedback and our own development progress, we will announce a new rollout plan for the first few months for 2021 early in the year.

With each release more features become available along with increased stability. To date all users run x86 OpenVMS as a Virtual Box or KVM guest. VSI provides an appliance file (.OVA) which the customer downloads. Release Notes and updated documentation are also provided. Components of the Cross Tools Kit are updated as needed with each release. The appliance is a preconfigured OpenVMS system. After importing the appliance, the customer simply starts the guest and OpenVMS boots. After executing the standard startup procedure, the system is ready for user login.

The appliance has SSL and VSI TCPIP installed and the customer does a standard network configuration specific to their local network address. TELNET and FTP are the network applications available in this release.

CSWS, FMS, and SSM kits are on the appliance and can be installed. The V9.0-D release added

DECram

SMP

XFC (file cache)

CSWS (Apache)

With each release more core operating system features will be available. Also, layered products and additional compilers (in the Cross Tools Kit) will be ready for use.

New additions targeted for the 14-October V9.0-E release are:

DECthreads

Hypersort

DECnet IV

DCPS

Below are a few snippets from the terminal. We have much testing work yet to do, but the fundamentals of multiprocessing are now in place. The following is from a KVM guest.

Code System startup..... VMS Software, Inc. OpenVMS (TM) x86_64 Operating System, V9.0-D Copyright 2020 VMS Software, Inc. MDS Mitigation active, variant nehalem(NEHALEM/WESTMERE/SANDY BRIDGE/IVY BRIDGE) %SMP-I-CPUTRN, CPU #1 has joined the active set. %SMP-I-CPUTRN, CPU #3 has joined the active set. %SMP-I-CPUTRN, CPU #2 has joined the active set.%STDRV-I-STARTUP, OpenVMS startup begun at 26-AUG-2020 17:27:29.61 After logging in.... $ show system/noprocesses OpenVMS V9.0-D on node X86VMS 26-AUG-2020 17:29:13.18 Uptime 0 00:01:45 $ $ show cpu System: X86VMS, BOCHS BXPCFACP CPU ownership sets: Active 0-3 Configure 0-3 CPU state sets: Potential 0-3 Autostart 0-3 Powered Down None Not Present None Hard Excluded None Failover None $ The file system cache is now in full operation and is "on" by default. $ show system / noprocesses OpenVMS V9.0-D on node X86VMS 26-AUG-2020 17:44:54.43 Uptime 0 00:17:26 $ $ show memory / cache System Memory Resources on 26-AUG-2020 17:41:42.20 Extended File Cache (Time of last reset: 26-AUG-2020 17:27:28.13) Allocated (MBytes) 3.12 Maximum size (MBytes) 1024.00 Free (MBytes) 1.32 Minimum size (MBytes) 3.12 In use (MBytes) 1.80 Percentage Read I/Os 93% Read hit rate 42% Write hit rate 0%Read I/O count 22236 Write I/O count 1612 Read hit count 9421 Write hit count 0 Reads bypassing cache 201 Writes bypassing cache 1495 Files cached open 187 Files cached closed 47 Vols in Full XFC mode 0 Vols in VIOC Compatible mode 5 Vols in No Caching mode 1 Vols in Perm. No Caching mode 0 $ The DECram device, a.k.a. ramdisk, is available for use. $ show system / noprocesses OpenVMS V9.0-D on node X86VMS 26-AUG-2020 18:00:01.67 Uptime 0 00:32:33 $ $ mount mda0: mdtest %MOUNT-I-MOUNTED, MDTEST mounted on _X86VMS$MDA0: $ $ show device mda0: Device Device Error Volume Free Trans Mnt Name Status Count Label Blocks Count Cnt X86VMS$MDA0: Mounted alloc 0 MDTEST 48005 1 1 $ $ copy *.com mda0:[testing] $ $ directory / total mda0:[testing] Directory MDA0:[TESTING] Total of 73 files. $ $ dele mda0:[testing]..* $ $ directory / total mda0:[testing] %DIRECT-W-NOFILES, no files found $ $ dismount mda0: $ $ show device md Device Device Error Volume Free Trans Mnt Name Status Count Label Blocks Count Cnt X86VMS$MDA0: Online 0 $



