This guest operating system is supported on the following VMware products:
Note: If you are installing a guest operating system through VMware VirtualCenter, be sure it is supported under the VMware product - ESX Server or GSX Server - on which you are running the virtual machine.
Be sure to read General Guidelines for All VMware Products as well as this guide to installing your specific guest operating system.
You can install NetWare 6.0 in a virtual machine using the standard Novell NetWare 6.0 CD-ROM.
Keep the following issues in mind:
On the reboot, you see a message that says "Operating System not found" and a dialog box with a message that says "No bootable CD, floppy or hard disk was detected."
In order to boot from the CD the second time, you must change the boot order.
As the virtual machine boots, click inside the virtual machine window. When the VMware logo appears, press Esc. Use the arrow keys to select the CD drive as the boot device, then press Enter.
To install NetWare 6 in a virtual machine, take the following steps.
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 (192.168.160.1 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 (192.168.160.2 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 appears 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 or follow the appropriate link in the knowledge base article at www.vmware.com/support/kb/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=340.
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, if you get an ABEND error in the JVM.NLM module, try installing the operating system again. This is a third-party problem that occurs rarely, but when it does, it occurs during installation only. Once you complete the installation, you should not see this error again.
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 6.0 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.
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.