[CentOS] Virtualisation of Netware?

[Nigel Kendrick]

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From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf
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Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 3:46 PM
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Subject: Re: [CentOS] Virtualisation of Netware?


On Aug 7, 2007, at 9:46 AM, Nigel Kendrick wrote:

> I am hoping someone can kick me up the learning curve (!) on  
> Virtualization:
>
> We have an old piece of data logging software that was written in  
> Turbo
> Pascal 6 using a file I/O module tuned to Netware and so it expects  
> its data
> files to be on a Netware server and will not access them locally or  
> via an
> MS/Samba share - essentially, it uses direct NCP calls for parts of  
> its data
> access.
>
> The logging software was replaced two years ago, but we need  
> occasional
> access to the data for a minimum of 6 years and so I wondered  
> whether I
> could virtualize a Netware 3.x/4.x/5.x or 6./x server under Linux (or
> Win..er..you know..).

virtualization seems an awful lot of heavy lifting for a capability  
that you're going to use so infrequently.  if you can get the data  
off the old Netware machine, you might be able to make do with some  
of the old Linux-based Netware emulation solutions:

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/IPX-HOWTO-10.html

-steve

Thanks - I dabbled with that a couple of years ago without much success. I
might end up just bringing the data into a mysql database and writing a
simple query front-end in php.