Comments on: Novell Netware 3.12 once more runs on Qemu!

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 08:41:34 +0000

Hello, what you’ve done is amazing.
You can contact me, please? I have a paid job.
We have functioning Novell NetWare 3.12 (I have the installation media) and I would need server migrate to a clean install on a new PC. Data Transfer manually. I need only emulated functional network solutions.

I will be glad if you answer must be negative. To know that you have received the message.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 00:53:15 +0000

In reply to Nick B.. I've always added GNS3 to make it somewhat easier to mix in various emulators. I did have command line setup that I seem to have misplaced (the joys of moving yet again). Even though I prefer to use Windows for this kind of thing, my laptop is OS X, and the server I rent is Linux..

By: Nick B.

Nick B. — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 00:15:05 +0000

In reply to neozeed.

OK I’ve spent some time on this with the Windows version and 2.1.2 which is on my Fedora 21 Box.
Installed NW 4.11 on both – runs well after I ~~removed the junk~~tuned my Qemu command line.
Being a Netware n00b I then discovered to do anything useful I needed a client so proceeded to make DRDOS 7 VM and install Novell Client/32. I now have the two talking over IPX and I’ve successfully used the client to upload NW4SP9 to the server.
I built a virtual net on the Linux using a bridge and tap interfaces on Qemu. I’ve also had it working using the socket interface across 127.0.0.1, useful if you’re using OSX and don’t have a bridge.
I’d be happy to share my Qemu startup scripts if there is any interest.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 12:21:05 +0000

In reply to Nick. Oh nice!

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 10:50:24 +0000

In reply to neozeed.

Also managed to get NW 4.2 to install although it’s a long and painful process! Again, the network is up on a Windows 8.1 host with the openvpn tap adaptors. To get qemu configured with one ne2k_isa I needed
-netdev tap,id=tap1,ifname=tap1,script=no,downscript=no -device ne2k_isa,netdev=tap1,irq=5,iobase=0x300
And I can see IPX traffic in Wireshark!

By: dugo

dugo — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 01:47:48 +0000

Novell Netware! I vaguely remember classrooms with dos boxen that booted into windows 3.11 from these beasts with some NET MAP wizzardry in AUTOEXEC.BAT faster than from the local disk. If there is a cookbook on how to pull this off I’d like to know.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 16:10:58 +0000

In reply to Nick.

Ive found it works best in tandem with GNS3… use the UDP tunnels to a virtual switch, and from there you can setup a libpcap interface and bind that to a NIC…

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 14:55:38 +0000

Re the networking – NW5 is working via a tap interface to the host PC.

Do you think it’s worth trying to build with SDL (or SDL2) rather than GTK3? If so I think I still have my toolchain from my 1.6.1 experiments.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 02:04:52 +0000

In reply to Nick. oh nice, he's got native building instructions..! I tried DOOM v1.1 on MS-DOS 5.0 and it's horribly broken.. Not that it matters I guess as there is PCem now which excels at running ancient DOS based stuff.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 00:07:51 +0000

Netware 5.1 SP8 installs and runs too. I’m using the Windows build from http://lassauge.free.fr/qemu/ – the last time I tried this and failed you pointed me towards MS VIrtual PC 2007, so this is a big step. Now I need to tinker with the VGA and the networking side.