Tips on VMware  and NetWare

Current tips: (tips for older versions of VMware are printed at the end of the list)

1. Shrinking your NetWare disks

1a. My server keeps losing Time Synchronization

2. Should i use IDE- or SCSI-disks for my NetWare server?

3. NetWare 6.5 Service Pack 2 overlay cd-rom installation fails to mount CD-ROM as a volume.

4. The GUI in NetWare 6 won't start during installation

5. My NetWare server comes up with a green or blue screen after a resume

6. What are the available options for the VMware tools for NetWare?

7. Problems installing Novell Cluster Services: it doesn't let you choose the option that shared media is available

8. My NetWare 5.1 server crashes at the moment the installation starts the GUI

9. My IDE-cd-rom is not detecting any cd's and ISO-images won't mount

10. My server keeps losing Time Synchronization 

Tips for older versions of VMware Workstation:

old: Can't install NetWare 6, getting errors about PAE

old: GUI in NetWare 6: the lights are out (wrong color coding)

old: My NetWare server displays messages about duplicate IP-addresses

If you need more tips or help from other VMware-users, visit the NNTP-newsgroups at news.vmware.com, there also is a newsgroup on NetWare,.

If you have any tips you would like to share, e-mail them to me so I can put them on my website.