Nigel Kendrick wrote: > Hi, > > 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..). > > I have found some articles on Netware 6.5 virtualization but would really > appreciate input from anyone actually doing this already - otherwise I'll > just have to keep the existing Netware server in the computer room to be > fired up about 3-4 times a year 'on demand'. For info, I'm running a Netware > 6.5 1-user 'demo' licence - the original install was on Netware 3.12 until > the server died and no-one could find the original Netware floppies! > > Thanks > > Nigel Kendrick > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > can your software communicate with Netware over tcp/ip or it needs ipx/spx? I had installed a Netware 6 server on VMware WS 5 a couple of years back in a scenario similar to yours. If memory serves right, problems were lack of VMware tools (no big deal) and lack of ipx/spx (this may be critical to you). Yiorgos