[CentOS] Virtualisation of Netware?

[Paul]

On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 10:45 -0400, Steve Huff wrote:
> 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

Just to put in my 2 cents ... I tried mars a couple years ago on CentOS
3 and managed to get it to run, but mars is *very* unsupported with no
development or bug fixing going on, frankly if it's just file serving I
would used samba instead.

Regards,
Paul Berger