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NetWare 5.1 Server Installation Guidelines

You can install NetWare 5.1 in a virtual machine using the standard Novell NetWare 5.1 CD-ROM. VMware recommends you install NetWare 5.1 on a host with at least 384MB of memory.

Preparing Your GSX Server Linux Host

If you are going to create and run this NetWare virtual machine on a Linux host, change the host's color depth to 256 colors/8-bit color before you create the virtual machine and install the guest operating system.

Creating and Configuring the NetWare Virtual Machine

Create a virtual machine configuration with the New Virtual Machine Wizard (Windows host) or Configuration Wizard (Linux host). For the most part, you can choose your own settings, except as noted below.
1. For the type of configuration, select Typical.
2. For the guest operating system, select NetWare 5.
3. Keep the memory setting for the virtual machine at its default of 512MB.
4. Create a new IDE virtual disk no smaller than the default of 4GB in size.
If you created this virtual machine on a Linux host, open the configuration file (<netware>.cfg) in a text editor and add the following line:
gui.iconLEDS = false
This removes all the LED icons in the console window, which prevents the virtual machine display from appearing incorrectly when you power it on while the host is in 8 bit/256 color mode.
Next, install the guest operating system and VMware Tools, which includes the CPU idler program. See below for details.

Installing the Guest Operating System

To install NetWare 5.1 in a virtual machine, complete the following steps.

Insert the Novell NetWare 5.1 installation CD into the CD-ROM drive on your GSX Server host and power on the virtual machine.
Read and accept the license agreement.
Create a new boot partition. The guest operating system reboots. The installation continues.
To configure IP networking, do one of the following:
- If you chose bridged networking for the virtual machine, enter its IP address.
  Note: On a Windows NT host, when NetWare tries to load the LAN driver (using pcntnw.lan), it fails because it broadcasts for its own IP address. This causes IP networking to fail.
  To work around this, open the System Console (press Ctrl-Esc) and type
  set allow ip address duplicates=on
  Press Alt-Esc to return to the installation.
- If you chose host-only networking for the virtual machine, look up the host machine's IP address.
  At a command prompt on a Windows host, type
  ipconfig /all
  At a command prompt on a Linux host, type
  ifconfig
  Note the host's IP address for VMnet1 and change the last octet so it is greater than the last octet in the IP address of the host.
  For example, if the host IP address is 192.168.160.1, then the virtual machine's IP address is 192.168.160.###, where ### is any number greater than 1 and less than 128.
  For the subnet mask, enter 255.255.255.0.
  For the router gateway, enter the host's IP address (192.168.80.1 in our example).
- If you chose network address translation (NAT) for the virtual machine, look up the host machine's IP address.
  At a command prompt on a Windows host, type
  ipconfig /all
  At a command prompt on a Linux host, type
  ifconfig
  Note the host's IP address for VMnet8 and change the last octet so it is greater than the last octet in the IP address of the host.
  For example, if the host IP address is 192.168.160.1, then the virtual machine's IP address is 192.168.160.###, where ### is any number greater than 2 and less than 128.
  For the subnet mask, enter 255.255.255.0.
  For the router gateway, enter the NAT service's IP address (192.168.80.2 in our example).
  Note that with Network Address Translation, there are 2 IP addresses in use on the host:
  * The IP address assigned to the interface for VMnet8 (which shows up in the ipconfig output with a ".1" in the last octet).
  * The IP address used by the NAT device itself (which always uses ".2" as the last octet).
Finish the installation by following the on-screen instructions.
After you finish the installation, install VMware Tools, which installs and loads the CPU idler program.

VMware Tools for NetWare 5.1 Guest Operating Systems

Be sure to install VMware Tools in your guest operating system. For details, see Installing VMware Tools.

Installing VMware Tools also installs and loads the CPU idler program. NetWare servers do not idle the CPU when the operating system is idle. As a result, a virtual machine takes CPU time from the host regardless of whether the NetWare server software is idle or busy. To prevent unnecessary slowdowns, VMware recommends that, after you install VMware Tools, you keep the NetWare CPU idle program loaded.

Known Issues

After the virtual machine reboots while installing VMware Tools, make sure the virtual machine releases the VMware Tools ISO image. Choose Devices > <CD-ROM>, and if the CD-ROM's submenu shows the VMware Tools ISO image, choose Disconnect.
During the installation of the guest operating system on an Intel Pentium 4 host, you may encounter a Page Fault error. If this error occurs, you must apply a NetWare 5.1 patch on the host machine. For details, see support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/2958220.htm.
If you are using text mode and want to browse the file system, you may notice that the arrow keypad and Insert key do not allow you to navigate directories. To work around this issue, use the numeric keypad, but first turn off the number lock by pressing the Num Lock key.
If you installed NetWare 5.1 Support Pack 5 in your guest operating system, you cannot mount the CD-ROM. To mount a CD-ROM with the support pack installed, do one of the following:
- Set the primary hard drive to IDE 0:0 and the CD-ROM drive to IDE 0:1.
- Copy the original driver files (IDEATA.DDI and IDEATA.HAM) from the Drivers\Storage directory of the installation CD-ROM that shipped with NetWare 5.1 to the c:\nwserver directory.
  Note: If you cannot mount CD-ROMs, you cannot install VMware Tools in the virtual machine.

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