On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 19:54 +0530, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Greetings, > > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:34 AM, Ed Heron <Ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 23:20 +0530, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > > > > There are so many variables that aren't mentioned... > > > > Do you currently have a CentOS box running KVM? > > I have used centos with KVM,brctrl etc. > > > > > > > What does your Netware server currently do? > > Just just pure and simple file storage. The worst part of it is The > client has to be a DOS6.22 with some custom ISA base hardware. > > > Netware 3 defaulted to using the IPX protocol for sharing file and > > print services. Are you still using IPX? If so, you are looking at a > > significant network reconfiguration. > > > > Indeed. with 802.3 frame etc :) > > > There might be lots of changes to client setup and software, > > > but look at Samba. It can be setup with a workgroup for file and print > > Now, How to access Samba with Dos 6.22? :p There was a workgroup client for DOS that used TCP/IP. I can't vouch for it's working, but try ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/BusSys/Clients/MSCLIENT/ > One main thought that first came to my mind is about the NIC Driver > under KVM I do understand that the Centos5 can present it as different > types of NIC (Intel, Realtek etc.) > > I am investigating it further. > > > Hopefully, you already have significant CentOS experience. > > Last 6 years or so I have worked only Fedora/Centos/RHEL. Since then I > have tried avoid taking calls windows etc. > > But this call I took because I have significant experience in netware > too about 10 years 2.2 to 4.10 with NDS etc I, also, supported Netware 2 and 3. I avoided 4 due to NDS and the availability of Samba. It was a big deal when the Internet was gaining momentum. At first, we had multiple protocols and multi-protocol routers. My memory is vague but I'm pretty sure Netware 3 could run NetBIOS on a TCP/IP stack. > > > The broad wording of your request might just be language barrier. > > I realised that. > > I will experiment further share my experience sometime later. > So, are you looking to move your existing Netware 3 server into a virtual environment? Or, are you looking to replace an existing Netware 3 server with a CentOS equivalent? I would suggest setting up a CentOS server with Samba and convert the DOS network stack, if you can. Samba appears to be much more supportable, currently. Take a look at the FreeDOS project, too, as an example of getting DOS to work in a more recent environment. The biggest concern (after getting the clients to talk to Samba) is that there have been a few choices made in Samba with respect to file sharing/locking mechanisms. With old software, you may have to look at those settings. If you attempt to virtualize Netware, you may run into issues, though it'd be an interesting exercise. I don't know if a Linux hypervisor will handle IPX packets without IPX support installed. You might need to check for an ipx kernel module. Also, my version of Virtual Machine Manager running on CentOS 5 with Xen doesn't give me any sort of Netware OS option when creating a new virtual machine, so you'll probably have to play with settings. I google'd netware virtual machine and saw a few links to virtualizing Netware 3 under VMWare which might give you some insights. Either way, do it in a separate test environment to work out any issues prior to production deployment. If I hadn't been strongly encouraged (successfully) to de-clutter my software repository, I'd pull out my old Netware 3.12 disks and try installing on a virtual machine. _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
