Use vmwarevm to migrate existing servers and networks (7)

3-5 Copy amd pcnet NIC Driver Program To the Virtual Machine and Load

After the NetWare virtual machine is received from the ghost console, restart the virtual machine. After entering Netware, run the down and Exit commands to exit Netware.
Edit the virtual machine configuration file and use "Netware. ISO is used as the optical drive of the NetWare virtual machine, and then copies all files on the CD to the NetWare directory, or creates a sub-directory under the root directory of the C drive, and copies all files on the CD to this directory.
Copy the Netware Driver of the amdpcnet Nic to a directory of the VM.

[Note] the amdpcnet NIC driver can be downloaded from the amd website, you can also download from the author's personal home page http://wch.heuet.net.
Then enter Netware, run the "load install" command in the console, add the driver to "Driver options", and press the "insert" key when loading the driver, press the F3 key, specify the path of the amdpcnet NIC Driver, select "amd Ethernet pcnet-PCI, PCnet-PCI_II", when specifying the NIC parameter, randomly specified, if not, the system will return to the console interface for automatic detection, as shown in figure 14.

Figure 14 specify Network Interface Parameters
Return to the install interface and go to the "NCF files options" item to edit the Startup File. Select "create autoexec. NCF file" and add
Load C:/drive/vmwtinst. NLM
In this sentence, C:/drive is the path to save VMware's Netware tools. Save and exit.

Figure 15 CPU usage after VMware Tools is loaded
Then exit Netware and run the server again. Afterwards, NetWare will automatically load VMware Tools. After loading, the CPU usage of the host will decrease a lot, as shown in Figure 15.

3-6 create a netware workstation in Virtual PC 2004

After the NetWare server is migrated, you can use the original netware workstation to connect to the migrated server. As long as the network is connected together, there is no problem. If multiple Netware servers are migrated to the same physical host, the best way is to install multiple NICs on the physical host so that each virtual machine can use one Nic, each network card is connected to the original network. Of course, multiple Netware servers can use the same physical network card, as long as the original NetWare network is connected together, And the NetWare license in the virtual machine is different, and the NetWare server name is different.

If you do not want the original netware workstation to "occupy the place", we can also implement the netware workstation in the virtual machine. Because most of the original Netware workstations are "diskless stations", virtual PC or VMware support Netware diskless, but it does not make much sense. We still create a netware workstation with disks.
Most Netware workstations use the UCDOS Chinese character system, because UCDOS has requirements on the graphics card of the workstation. Microsoft Virtual PC virtualizes The S3 video card and VMWare virtualizes its own "VMware VGA video card". Therefore, we recommend using the Microsoft Virtual PC virtual machine as the netware workstation.

Install Microsoft Virtual PC on the workstation of the virtual machine that physically connects to the NetWare server of VMware gsx server, and then create a MS-DOS virtual machine named Netware Client.

Then install MS-DOS 6.22 In the virtual machine and edit the system configuration file. Note that emm386.exe is not required for the client software installed with netwarein the Virtual Machine of Virtual PC.

Figure 16 loading the Intel 21041 NIC Driver
Then download the Netware Client driver for the Intel 21041 Nic from the Intel website (or author's personal homepage http://wch.heuet.net or http://www.xuniji.com) and install the DOS client for NetWare, as shown in Figure 16 and 17.

Figure 17 bind 802.2 and 802.3
After the installation is complete, restart the virtual machine, log on to the NetWare server, type the LOGIN Command, and log on, as shown in Figure 18.

Figure 18 run UCDOS
Then, you can use the netware workstation in the virtual machine as in the original workstation.
Of course, we can also create a DOS virtual machine in the vmware workstation, and then install the Netware Client software in the DOS virtual machine. This requires installing the DOS driver under NetWare of the amdpcnet Nic, this can be downloaded from the amd website or author's personal homepage http://wch.heuet.net or http://www.xuniji.com.