VMS Software have been hard at work for many years porting OpenVMS from Itanium to x86-64 and recently was this work published with a Community License. OpenVMS 9.2 is purely targeted towards virtualized environments and the installation instructions cover Virtual Box and VMware/ESXi. I have it running under VirtualBox I am trying to get it to run on Parallels, of course, and have run into a problem that I would like some help with, please. The boot process for OpenVMS is that once booted it needs a serial connection to a console to proceed, due to historical reasons. In VirtualBox I can set up a serial port to the virtual machine that maps to a telnet port which is then accessible from my macOS terminal, and the same thing is needed for VMware and ESXi for obvious reasons. Thus, if I assign port number 4444 to the serial port in VirtualBox I can reach my OpenVMS with the command "telnet localhost 4444" Booting OpenVMS in Parallels works fine and I get to the point where I need to connect the serial port to the console but my problem is that I can not find a way to get this to work in Parallels. I have added a serial port under Hardware with port number "4444" and then tried with both "client" and "server" as mode but doing "telnet localhost 4444" results only in a "Connection refused" and I am stuck as there is no way forward unless I have a working console. Any ideas what I am doing wrong and how I should do this instead?
Just to clarify my question: I need to be able to access the serial port of a virtual machine (in this case OpenVMS) with a terminal emulator. In VirtualBox and VMware I can connect a telnet port to the serial port of any virtual machine as part of the guest OS configuration. How can I do this in Parallels?
Hi, I've been trying to run OpenVMS in Parallels as well but I can't get past the bootloader it says "No XSAVE instruction". I tried adding this into advanced options: kernel.xsave=1 kernel.xsaves=1 kernel.xsavec=1 But that didn't change anything... this is on a M3 mac using the x86 emulation. Are you running it on an Intel mac or Apple Silicon? If you're on Apple Silicon did you have to do anything for the XSAVE issue? As for the serial port issue from what I can see it only works between two VMs, I think you need a second VM as a client to connect to the server VM but I could be wrong.
