Finally a few weeks ago got my HP-UX and virtualized Windows 2008 working. Also RHEL 5 boots fine. Probably Windows 2008 R2 is not supported or working. Thank you so much about this post.

rescueshell ~ # uname -a
Linux (none) 6.6.24-gentoo-ia64 #1 SMP Fri Apr 5 13:40:42 UTC 2024 ia64 GNU/Linux

I didn’t expect that last IA64 version of Gentoo would work under IntegrityVM. But atleast it’s booting up. Detects disk and network controllers… but failed.

e1000: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver
e1000: Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation.
e1000 0000:00:01.0: can’t enable device: BAR 0 [mem size 0x00020000 64bit] not assigned
e1000: probe of 0000:00:01.0 failed with error -22

Got couple years ago Itanium blade (BL860c i2 with chassis) and of course installed HP-UX but quickly figured out that Integrity VM (6.3.5 i guess) is too new for other operating systems.

If i remember right there was something that BL860c i2 is not supported with older HP-UX’es (not sure if not supported means not working, didnt try) but downgrading IntegrityVM sounds intresting option. Wikipedia arcticle about Integrity VM says that IntegrityVM 4.3 support Itanium Tukwila, whatever it means “supported” but mine CPU is Tukwila 93xx quad-core.

Install over ILO is very painful slow process. Atleast mine generic USB DVD-ROM drive wont work with HP-UX (unable boot, dont remember if Windows 2008 R2 booting was working, Gentoo was booting also but dont remember was it over ILO or optical drive). I was also consider setting up ignite-ux server under Qemu (pa-risc, some older HP-UX) but never tried since HP-UX under Qemu is pretty slow anyway (with i5-12400 and Ryzen 7700X).

Atleast now http://osarchive.org/ site is down… pity.

Thanks intresting information, Since its winter and my storage room needs some heating so maybe its good time to turn on Itanium heating.