On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 10:45 -0400, Steve Huff wrote:
> On Aug 7, 2007, at 9:46 AM, Nigel Kendrick wrote:
>
> > I am hoping someone can kick me up the learning curve (!) on
> > Virtualization:
> >
> > We have an old piece of data logging software that was written in
> > Turbo
> > Pascal 6 using a file I/O module tuned to Netware and so it expects
> > its data
> > files to be on a Netware server and will not access them locally or
> > via an
> > MS/Samba share - essentially, it uses direct NCP calls for parts of
> > its data
> > access.
> >
> > The logging software was replaced two years ago, but we need
> > occasional
> > access to the data for a minimum of 6 years and so I wondered
> > whether I
> > could virtualize a Netware 3.x/4.x/5.x or 6./x server under Linux (or
> > Win..er..you know..).
>
> virtualization seems an awful lot of heavy lifting for a capability
> that you're going to use so infrequently. if you can get the data
> off the old Netware machine, you might be able to make do with some
> of the old Linux-based Netware emulation solutions:
>
> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/IPX-HOWTO-10.html
>
> -steve
Just to put in my 2 cents ... I tried mars a couple years ago on CentOS
3 and managed to get it to run, but mars is *very* unsupported with no
development or bug fixing going on, frankly if it's just file serving I
would used samba instead.
Regards,
Paul Berger
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