In Novell® Open Enterprise Server (OES) 2, the NetWare® operating system has been modified to run in paravirtual mode on a Xen virtual machine.
NOTE:Running OES 2 NetWare (NetWare 6.5 SP7) or earlier versions of NetWare 6.5 in fully virtualized mode on a Xen-based host server is not supported.
This section documents the system requirements, installation instructions, upgrade and migration instructions, and issues associated with setting up NetWare on a Xen-based virtual machine.