On 03/06/2019 04:07 PM, Brian Roth via cctalk wrote: My discussions 4 ~ 6 month ago with people from the Hobbyist License program told me that I could (re)use my single hobbyist license on multiple VAXen, physical and / or virtual. If you are worried or want confirmation, please send the contact for your existing license an email.? Or go through the Hobbyist License front door and inquire. They were quite friendly and seemed happy to answer my questions. The worst was the sometimes multi-day turn around time.? But I'm not complaining for something free.? :-)

Prior to v5.0, VAX/VMS didn?t use LMF, so as Antonio pointed out, you need a license tape. While I saw these online a few years ago, I didn?t download them at the time, and they don?t seem to be online anywhere. Years ago, I got a MicroVAX 3 system running VAX/VMS 4.6 from an RD53. It booted once, when I went to boot the 2nd time to back it up to a TK50, the RD53 died. :-( End result, it has OpenVMS 7.2 installed on a RA73 (and hasn?t been booted in nearly 20 years). Zane > On Mar 6, 2019, at 5:01 PM, BGeezer via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote: > > Ok, I got a chance to login and try installing DECnet so I could reproduce the error. This is the result of > > trying to install without a license. VMS by itself does not complain. > > If you have not already installed the DECnet-VAX license, then do so now. > > After the license has been installed, you should invoke the procedure > SYS$MANAGER:STARTNET.COM to startup DECnet-VAX with these changes. > > (If the license is already installed) Do you want DECnet started? [YES]: > %%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 6-MAR-2019 19:54:08.80 %%%%%%%%%%% > Message from user DECNET > DECnet starting > > %RUN-S-PROC_ID, identification of created process is 00000108 > %NCP-I-NMLRSP, listener response - Operation failure > Circuit = UNA-0 > %SYSTEM-F-NOLICENSE, operation requires software license > %RUN-S-PROC_ID, identification of created process is 0000010A > > > I'll try and extract just the DECnet license and install it on its own and see what I get. > > > > On 3/6/19 6:07 PM, Brian Roth via cctalk wrote: >> Hello,I have a current hobbyists license for OpenVMS 7.3 and a handful of simulated VAXen. I wanted to add my simulated 11/780 and 11/782 to my DECnet and wondered if there was a (legal of course) license workaround to install networking on an older version such as 4.4. The current PAKS will not work.Brian. >> >> >> Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android

Yes, I can see now that they are different. If I can't find a license tape I'll probably put on 5.5 which I have as well. In fact I have V1.0 on up. I'm running two Simh instances on each Raspberry Pi all clustered and running DECnet and TCP/IP. I was hoping for a large mix of machines and VMS versions so hopefully I can eventually find some early licenses.