This guest operating system is supported on the following VMware products:
You can install NetWare 5.1 in a virtual machine using the standard Novell NetWare 5.1 CD-ROM.
Note: VMware recommends you install NetWare 5.1 on a host with at least 384MB of memory.
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.
This removes all the LED icons in the virtual machine window, which prevents the virtual machine display from appearing incorrectly when you power it on while the host is in 256-color mode.
To install NetWare 5.1 in a virtual machine, take the following steps.
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
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 this example).
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 this example).
Note that with Network Address Translation, there are two IP addresses in use on the host:
The IP address assigned to the interface for VMnet8 shows up in the ipconfig output with a 1 in the last octet.
The IP address used by the NAT device itself always uses 2 as the last octet.
After you finish the installation, install VMware Tools, which installs and loads the CPU idler program.
Be sure to install VMware Tools in your guest operating system. For details, see the manual for your VMware product.
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.
After the virtual machine reboots while installing VMware Tools, make sure the virtual machine releases the VMware Tools ISO image. Choose Edit > Removable Devices > CD-ROM, and if the CD-ROM's configuration shows the VMware Tools ISO image, change it back to Use physical drive.
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 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:
Note: If you cannot mount CD-ROMs, you cannot install VMware Tools in the virtual machine.
If the virtual machine is unable to grab or ungrab the mouse, it may be due to a Java class not being referenced in the virtual machine. In the NetWare 5.1 guest operating system, check the xinitrc file, which is located in sys:\java\nwgfx\. Take the following steps.
The virtual machine should be able to grab and ungrab the mouse now.
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