Netware 6.5 SP8 as a guest on Proxmox 7

[Dietmar Schmidt]

I have successfully installed Netware 6.5 with the following configuration:

balloon: 0
boot: order=ide0
cores: 1
cpu: pentium3,flags=-pcid;-spec-ctrl;-ssbd;-ibpb;-virt-ssbd;-amd-ssbd;-amd-no-ssb;-hv-tlbflush;-hv-evmcs;-aes
cpuunits: 2048
hotplug: usb
ide0: raid5:100/vm-100-disk-0.raw,cache=writeback,size=32G
ide2: none,media=cdrom
kvm: 1
machine: pc-i440fx-5.0
memory: 16384
meta: creation-qemu=6.2.0,ctime=1668728811
name: netware
net0: e1000=46:C1:FD:8B:BA:47,bridge=vmbr1
numa: 1
ostype: other
smbios1: uuid=049fe9a1-9a71-46fa-946d-6caf959c173c
sockets: 1
tablet: 0
vga: std
vmgenid: 567886f9-5f74-4993-bf78-50ed172330a3
vmstatestorage: raid5

The pentium3 CPU and machine type was important, with other settings the server hangs.

Unfortunately, the Netware Server runs VERY slowly. NW5-IDLE.NLM is useful, but the server speed was not better. Has anybody an idea what to do for performance?

regards,
Dietmar

 

[tom]

ide0: raid5:100/vm-100-disk-0.raw,cache=writeback,size=32G

raid5? what is exactly behind, hardware, settings?

this could be be a reason, raid5 is known to be too slow.

 

[geos_one]

the Proxmox setup ist pve 7.4 newest version.

balloon: 0
boot: order=sata1
cores: 1
cpu: pentium3,flags=-pcid;-spec-ctrl;-ssbd;-ibpb;-virt-ssbd;-amd-ssbd;-amd-no-ssb;-hv-tlbflush;-hv-evmcs;-aes
cpuunits: 2048
hotplug: 0
kvm: 1
memory: 4096
meta: creation-qemu=6.2.0,ctime=1668728811
name: netware
net0: e1000=46:C1:FD:8B:BA:47,bridge=vmbr0
numa: 1
ostype: other
sata0: disk:100/vm-100-disk-0.qcow2,size=10G
sata1: disk:iso/NW65SP8_OVL_DVD.iso,media=cdrom,size=1126720K
smbios1: uuid=049fe9a1-9a71-46fa-946d-6caf959c173c
sockets: 1
tablet: 0
vga: cirrus
vmgenid: 567886f9-5f74-4993-bf78-50ed172330a3

with this config and sata the setup was possible and most important fast but the the vga was colourefull.
do you have an idea what i have to change to get a correct output in the vnc. or what to change to force an vesa setup that is working ?.