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
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