Configuring the VxWorks Full Simulator on Windows

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My notes on configuring the VxSim Full Simulator on Windows XP. Note: this is not working.
See also http://www.xs4all.nl/~borkhuis/vxworks/multsimnt.html
and less importantly http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21123701

Install ULIP

1. Go to Tornado 2.2 User's Guide > section 6.5 "Configuring the VxSim Full Simulator" > "Installing ULIP on a Windows XP Host" and follow the instructions. Here is the extract of the text:

   Installing ULIP on a Windows XP Host
   1. From the Start menu select Settings>Control Panel>Add Hardware. This launches
   the driver installation wizard. Click Next.
   2. The wizard searches for recently connected hardware; this stage can take
   several minutes. Then select Yes, I have already connected the hardware, and click
   Next.
   3. From the Installed hardware list, select Add a new hardware device, and click Next.
   4. Select Install the hardware that I manually select from a list [Advanced], click Next.
   5. From the Common hardware types list, select Network adapters, click Next.
   6. Click Have Disk, and select the host\x86-win32\bin directory of your Tornado
   installation.
   7. Select WindRiver ULIP, and click Next twice
   8. The Hardware Installation dialog reports that “WindRiver ULIP has not passed
   Windows Logo testing to verify its compatibility with Windows XP. You can
   safely ignore this warning and click Continue Anyway.
   9. Then, from the Control Panel, launch Network Connections and right-click
   WindRiver ULIP connection (You can rename this connection).
   10. From the WindRiver ULIP Properties panel, select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), and
   click Properties.
   11. Check Use the following IP address, and enter an IP address of the form
   nnn.nnn.nnn.254 (for example, 192.168.255.254), and 255.255.255.0 as Subnet
   mask, and click on Advanced.
   12. In the WINS tab, select Disable NetBIOS over TCP/IP and click OK to properly
   close all the remaining windows.
   13. If you want to enable network communication between simulators and the
   outside world, select Setting>Control Panel>Administrative tools from the Start
   menu, double-click on Services, then search for the Routing and Remote access
   service. If it is disabled, right-click on it and change the startup type to
   Automatic so it will be started whenWindows starts. Click OK to validate your
   change. The service can now be started using the play icon on the main service
   window.

Configure VxSim for Networking

1. Create a bootable project
2. From pg. 208 of the Tornado User's Guide:

   - On the VxWorks tab in the Project Workspace window, select the folder called
   network components.
   - Right click and select Include ‘network components’ from the pop-up menu. Click
   OK to accept the defaults.

3. Click on "development tool components" > "WDB agent components" > "select WDB connection".
4. Right-click on the bolded "WDB simulator pipe connection" and select "Exclude 'WDB simulator pipe connection'". Click "OK"
5. Right-click on "WDB END driver connection" and select "Include 'WDB END driver connection'...". Click "OK".
6. Rebuild your project.

Launch the Simulator / Configure Target Server

1. Follow these instructions from pg. 209 of the Tornado User's Guide:

   – Click the Launch Simulator icon. Select Custom-built simulator and set the path
   to a full simulator project directory. Click OK. In the Launch Target Server
   window. click on Details. Select Full simulator to enable the default target
   server options and click OK to launch the target server.
   – Click on Tools>TargetServer>Configure. In the Configure Target Servers
   window, select wdbrpc in the Available Back Ends list, set the IP address of
   the simulator in the Target Name/IP Address field, and set the target server
   name to vxsim.
   The target server command line should be:
   tgtsvr.exe 192.168.255.1 -n vxsim1 -V -B wdbrpc

2. I got the following errors in my target server window:

   tgtsvr (vxsim@MYCOMPUTER): Tue Feb 27 09:45:57 2007
       Checking License ...OK
       Connecting to target agent... succeeded.
       Attaching C++ interface... succeeded.
       Attaching pecoff OMF reader for SIMNT CPU family... succeeded.
   
       Error: rpccore backend client Procedure unavailable
       Error: Cannot get target toolname (gopher Error)