Hp-Unix OS practice.

[Gurudatta Shinde]

Hello all,
Can any one know the way we can practice HP-UNIX OS on Personal desktop ( X86 based ) ?
something we can do by Vmware ?
Thanks in advance.

[Michal Kapalka (mikap)]

hi,

that's not possible, HP-UX is CPU ( Itanium / PA-RISC architecture ) depend.


mikap

[Ganesan R · Accepted solution]

Hi Gurudatta,

HP was having that option via http://www.testdrive.hp.com . Now it is retired and started new service. The replacement for testdrive is http://www.hp.com/go/PVP

See here.

http://www.testdrive.hp.com/shutdown.html

http://h21007.www2.hp.com/portal/site/dspp/menuitem.863c3e4cbcdc3f3515b49c10
8973a801/?ciid=c608f321e5f02110f321e5f02110275d6e10RCRD

I believe there are some web hosting sites which provides this kind of server access on paid basis. You need to google it.

[Ivan Krastev]

And of course you have a change to find a cheap old HP-UX box (server or workstation) at ebay.

regards,
ivan

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Unlike Solaris, there is no x86 based release of HP-UX.

The best you can do is to purchase on old PA-RISC workstation on ebay, OS media and install.

There is not equivalent hardware for IA64 at this point.

Ask your HP rep, if there is a need, HP might decide to fill it.

SEP

[Sajjad Sahir]

Dear guru

if it is solaris u can install in intel and u can practice but in case of hp-ux it is not possible, u should purchase cheap hp-ux workstaion at least

thanks and regards

Sajjad Sahir

[Sajjad Sahir]

Dear Guru

one more thing i forgot to mention, even solaris if u installed in intel based system u won't get ok prompt and related commands.

thanks and regards

Sajjad Sahir

[Steven Schweda]

> There is not equivalent hardware for IA64
> at this point.

Equivalent to what? Shipping not be cheap
and easy, but I got an rx2600 for less than
$200 recently. (I don't know if they're all
gone yet, but the seller seemed to have a
nearly unlimited supply.) I'd bet that I
could pay more for an older+slower PA-RISC
machine.

[Taifur]

Hi,

It is not possible because HP-UX support only ITANIUM/PARISC processor. HP-UX is Processor dependent OS.HP-UX supported harwdare are HP9000 and interigity server like rx series

Rgds//
Taifur

[Hein van den Heuvel]

Gurudatta Shinde,

If your profile is correct and you indeed work for EDS, now HP, then you should just ask your boss for a system, or access to a (slice) of a (virtual) system. Easy enough no? Ask them to save one from the Marlboro crunchers.

Or do as Steven an I did, invest in an Itanium and a few drives for a few hundred dollars from Ebay. Of course there is a thorny issue of shipping to India, if you try to undertake this privately.

fwiw,
Hein.

[Gurudatta Shinde]

thanks to all .