tips for older versions of VMware

Can't install NetWare 6, getting errors about PAE

You can run NetWare 6 in VMware if you change/add the following lines to your .VMX file:

    guestOS = "netware6"
    svga.8bitonly = TRUE

PS: In VMware Workstation version 3.2 NetWare 6 is supported as an experimental OS. Choosing NetWare 6 adds the line guestOS = NetWare6 to the .VMX file. If you set the host to 256 colors as the manual says the NetWare 6 GUI will work. But if you add the line svga.8bitonly = TRUE the GUI will also work with a higher color depth. 

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

Using the GUI in NetWare 6 it may look as if the lights are out, the screen is dark. You can read the screens however it is not nice, especially in demo's and if yoy want to make screenshots.
Petr Vandrovec has created a fix for this problem (vmware-1455-vbe2.zip, available on http://knihovny.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware). I have also placed this file on my website so you can download it here.
The ZIP-file contains vbefix2.com, a small program that you must load in DOS before starting the NetWare 6 server.

PS: This has been fixed since VMware Workstation version 3.1 build 1790

My NetWare server displays messages about duplicate IP-addresses

You will not have this problem when you run your NetWare-server with Host-only networking. 

The problem is that the server receives ARP-packets that contain it's own IP address with it's own MAC-address and says that there is a computer on the network with the same IP-address.

You cannot suppress the error messages but you can however enable the use of duplicate IP addresses with the following command:

SET ALLOW IP ADDRESS DUPLICATES = ON

PS: This has been fixed since VMware Workstation v3.2

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.