Guest support

Support of guest operating systems is quite limited. You can find the results of what works in the current version below, along with some notes. Generally the SCSI controller is better for testing operating systems, because it's more complete, however it's also a little buggy, so if the IDE controller works it's better to use that.

OS	State	Notes
OpenVMS 8.4	works	Should install seamleassly. Use of IDE controller recommended.
OpemVMS 8.42L1	works	As above. Similarly to other emulators erorrs while copying a few files occur - those can be ignored.
OpenBSD 6.7	boots with hacks, doesn't install	Using both IDE and SCSI controller crashes because unknown command, if patched to ignore it, boots, but doesn't install (install tried using IDE only).
NetBSD 6.1.2	works	Should install seamlessly with SCSI controller for both hard drive and installation CD.
NetBSD 9.0	boots, doesn't install	The disk must not be SCSI (the CD drive can and should). Installer goes back to menu after selecting partitioning (perhaps a bug).
NetBSD 9.1	boots, maybe installs?	As in 9.0 the disk must not be SCSI. Installer goes through to set extraction, but the copying stalls and stops.
Tru64 UNIX 5.1B	boots, doesn't install	The installation CD boots using the SCSI controller - hard drive is detected correctly, but it panics on a FS related error during installation. Experiments can be done in the installation environment shell.
OSF/1 1.3a	doesn't boot	CPU/system type not supported; maybe reporting an older system to bypass the check or using a patched kernel would get further
OSF/1 2.0b	doesn't boot	Same as above.
Debian 5.0 lenny	doesn't boot	Hangs on boot.
Windows NT	untested	Requires ARC firmware instead of SRM. This is included in the ES40 ROM, but doesn't work on AXPbox yet.