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