Netware 6.5 in Virtual PC 2004
Last week I attended a course at Commvault in Oberhausen, Germany. The course was “QiNetix Galaxy System Administration Level I”.
There was a lab setup for the students with Wyse Thin Clients connected to a Dell PowerEdge 850 with 2Gigs of RAM. Nice hardware setup. During the labs we also had some virtual servers running in MS Virtual PC 2004 (a pity, i prefer using VMware)…
Because we are running NetWare 6.5 at our company I was interested in how Commvault would work on that OS. The solution of course was to install it in VPC, but then i ran into a problem with the network driver of the virtual machine.
The solution was quite easy, as Novell delivers some unsupported drivers with it’s OS.
During installation the next error will occur:
No network board driver has been selected.
Press [enter] to continue.
This is how to continue when you experience this error:
Press [Enter] to accept the error message.
Select Modify and Press [Enter] twice
Press [Ins] twice to add an unsupported driver
Press [F3] to enter the driver location
Specify c:\nwserver\drivers\upsupdrv as location and press [enter]
The driver named DC21X4.LAN will appear. Select it by pressing [enter]
You can now continue installing Netware on Virtual PC.
Another interesting read might be this: Running NetWare 6 Under VMware Workstation for Windows.
The solution provided here (using the nw5-idle.nlm in the Netware guest) will work with VPC too. Without running this Idle manager Netware will use 100% CPU, you will not regret using it.
Posted in Virtualization, English, Computers
January 6th, 2008 at 21:58
I am using Virtual PC 2007 and installing Netware 6.5 SP7 in a virtual machine. The path on my Netware CD for the driver you mentioned is c:\nwserver\drivers\unsupdrv instead of c:\nwserver\drivers\upsupdrv.
February 7th, 2008 at 15:13
I have an old DOS program that only runs on netware. We have been using the original virtual PC made by Connectix which invented it before Microsoft bought them out. Virtual PC 2004 and netware do not work well, it is so slow it is unusable. However, the new virtual pc 2007 runs netware at a usable speed, but not as well as the oldconnctix version. The problem is the old connectix will not run under vista and I know my xp machines have a limited life span. Is anyone running netware under virtual pc 2007? If so, please let me know how it functions. I am loading up my netware shell (please forgive my ignorance of terms, I am not a computer “geek”) as follows:
lsl
dc21×4
ipxodi
netx
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
paulkornatt@hotmail.com
November 29th, 2011 at 22:16
I cannot believe I didn’t see the post earlier…good post and I look forward to what you have to share in the future.
November 30th, 2011 at 19:47
Good post…glad to see you put some thought into it. Hope that we get more input than what we have so far.
November 30th, 2011 at 20:20
Well, finally a post that puts a smile on my face….good input and I hope you can keep the level of upcoming post high.