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NetWare 5
Server Installation Guidelines and Known Problems
Note: Support for Novell NetWare 5 as
a guest operating system is experimental at this time.
NetWare 5 can be installed in a virtual machine using the standard
Novell NetWare 5 CD. Before installing the operating system,
be sure that you have already created a new virtual
machine and configured it using the Configuration Wizard (or
Configuration Editor).
NetWare 5 Server Installation
Steps
- Use the VMware Workstation Configuration Editor to verify the virtual
machine's devices are set up as you expect before starting the
installation. For example, be sure that your virtual machine
is configured for at least 48MB of memory (which the NetWare
server installation will require). VMware also recommends that you
disable the screen saver on the host system before starting the
installation process.
- Insert the NetWare 5 CD in the CD-ROM drive.
- Power on the virtual machine to start the NetWare server
installation process. The virtual machine should be able to boot
from the NetWare 5 CD. Install the software in a virtual machine
as you would for a real PC.
- If the virtual machine has been configured for networking
(bridged, host-only, etc.), then the installation will detect a
PCI Ethernet adapter and prompt you with a list of possible
drivers. Select the AMD PCnet PCI Ethernet card to continue
with the installation.
- When the installer starts the NetWare 5 graphical console,
the mouse will not be recognized unless you move the mouse while the
graphical console is being loaded. You can use the graphical
console with just the keyboard or disable the graphical console
by removing the startx.ncf entry from the server's
AUTOEXEC.NCF file at a later time.
- Finish the NetWare 5 Server installation by following the
on-screen instructions. Once the software has been installed;
you can remove the startx.ncf line from the
AUTOEXEC.NCF file if you want to prevent the new
NetWare 5 graphical console from starting.
- Once the NetWare software has been installed, switch to the
server console and type edit autoexec.ncf. Add the
following line to the server's AUTOEXEC.NCF file,
anywhere below the line that starts with file server
name:
load c:\nwserver\nw5-idle
nw5-idle is a CPU idle NetWare Loadable Module for
NetWare 5 servers (more on this below).
- Once you have updated the server's AUTOEXEC.NCF
file with the above line, down the server and type
exit to return to a DOS prompt.
- NetWare servers do not idle the CPU when the operating system
is idle. As a result, a virtual machine will take CPU time from the
host regardless of whether the NetWare server software is idle or
busy. To prevent unnecessary slowdowns VMware recommends that you download the NetWare 5 CPU idle
program and copy it to the virtual machine's
c:\nwserver directory. The line added to the server's
AUTOEXEC.NCF file earlier will automatically load the
CPU idle program (nw5-idle.nlm) every time the NetWare
server boots.
Known Issues
- NetWare 5's new graphical console does not detect/recognize
the virtual machine's PS/2 mouse. As a result, the graphical
console can only be operated by using a keyboard.
- No VMware Tools package exists for NetWare guest operating systems;
therefore, NetWare is limited to only VGA mode graphics and it is
always necessary to use the Ctrl-Alt-Esc key combination
to release the mouse from the virtual machine.
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