Novell OPEN ENTERPRISE SERVER 2 SP2 - LAB GUIDE 01-19-2010 Manual page 39

Page Name
Disks
Summary
4 After the NetWare installation starts, use the following table to navigate the pages listed in the
left column:
IMPORTANT: Some of the instructions that follow assume you have a mouse attached to the
server. If not, as you install, use the Tab key to select the options indicated, then press Enter to
continue.
Action
Initially, a 10 GB file is specified for the partitions/volumes on
the virtual server. By default, this is a sparse file, meaning that
although 10 GB is allocated, the size of the file on the disk will
only be as large as the actual data it contains. Sparse files
conserve disk space, but they have a negative impact on
performance.
The NetWare install allocates 500 MB for a DOS partition and 8
GB for the SYS: volume. The default disk size of 10 GB leaves
about 1.5 GB for other partitions, which isn't very much,
although it is sufficient for the exercises in this guide.
However, you allocated 25 GB for the /vm mount point on the
server, so let's allocate all of that to this virtual machine.
1. With the default Hard Disk selected, click Edit.
2. Modify the path in the Server field to be
file:/vm/LAB_NW_VM/disk0
This creates the virtual machine files on the Ext2
partition you created during the installation.
3. In the Size field, replace 10.0 with 25.
4. Deselect Create Sparse Image File.
This dedicates 25 GB of physical disk space on the file
system to the VM file and improves performance of the
Virtual NetWare server.
5. Click OK.
6. Click CD-ROM.
7. Click Browse, then navigate to and select the
NW65SP8_OVL_DVD.iso
desktop.
8. Click Open.
9. Click OK.
10. Click Apply.
1. Click OK.
The virtual machine is created and the NetWare
installation starts.
This can take a few minutes or longer, depending on
processor speed, memory, etc. Most of the time is required
to prepare the 25 GB VM file. However, after the file is
prepared, the VM will run much more efficiently than if it
were using a sparse file.
/vm
file you downloaded to the
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