Subj : Re: Retro virtualization platform?
To   : acn
From : deon
Date : Tue Dec 28 2021 10:33:27

  Re: Re: Retro virtualization platform?
  By: acn to deon on Mon Dec 27 2021 03:18 pm

 > Btw, is there an alternative to the web client and the VMware Remote
 > Console, which has to be launched from the web client?

I have also VMware fusion on my laptop - and I can connect to it with that. You may be able to use VMware player (if it's still around) - but I only ever use VRC.

 > Oh, another NetWare user! :)
 > Are you using it for something special?

Yeah BBSing :) I run my old BBS from 1995 in DOS 6.22 and wanted to run a couple of other DOS 6.22 VMs representing different nodes, and try out the different mailers. Its not really running - I've been distracted with something else, but when I get back in the mood, I'll turn it on and keep playing with it.

I was a Netware (3.1) admin back in the day, so was (and still am) a huge fan of netware.

I was running Netware 6, and it was great, I could NFS mount it on linux, making it super easy to edit and compare files from the many backups I have (I've wanted to get rid of all my duplicate copies from DOS machine images that had no shared disk).

But VMware 6 is very bloated (and so different to my fading memories of v3.11), so I went back to VMware 4, but couldnt get NFS working. With VMware 4, I found a 5 user license, which is just enough - I did look for a 10/50/100 user license but couldnt find it - but folks are still trying to sell them on ebay.

If I could get NFS working on NW 4, I'd probably use it more.

 > I have the problem that I have to use a serial device in a VM which is   attached to the host. With a 'real' serial port (COM1:), it is
 > working
 > - but it's not possible to use a USB-serial adapter and attach it as a
 > 'real' serial port to a VM...

Can you pass the USB device through to the VM, and have the VM (with the appropriate driver) talk to it? I'm sure I've done this. I think I had my USB to serial adapter, where the DOS machine talks to the ESXi serial port, and the USB/serial dongle connect to it, back to another VM running tcpser. (Now I have that USB/serial dongle in a Pi running TCPser.)


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