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.
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 myO5D 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.)
But I found a "unlimited server and client" license for 5.1 on the
web, so I'm fine at the moment :)
If I could get NFS working on NW 4, I'd probably use it more.
;-) Maybe using FTP could be worth a look? I don't know what desktop environment you're using, but sometimes 'mounting' a FTP server
is possible.
I think I had myO5D 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.)
I fail to understand that setup, sorry.
Did you manage it so that DOS talks to COM1: (in DOS) and the data is
coming out of an USB-to-serial adapter?
Have a nice weekend!
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