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Installing Novell ZENworks into a Virtual Machine

Note: Support for the Novell ZENworks Starter Pack 1.1 and 2.0 (full release) software is experimental at this time.

Novell ZENworks client software is offered for most popular operating systems. VMware Workstation virtual machines can run the client software with any guest operating system that is supported by ZENworks.

The ZENworks client software can be installed in a virtual machine using the standard Novell ZENworks (floppy and CD) distributions. To install the client software, be sure to have the virtual machine configured for networking (bridged, host-only, etc.), then power it up and boot a ZENworks supported operating system. Once the virtual machine is running a guest operating system, install the ZENworks client software by following the Novell installation instructions as you would for a physical PC.

During the installation process, select the AMD PCnet PCI Ethernet card from the list of network adapters (regardless of the type of physical NIC you have in your host machine). We recommend that you use the default LAN adapter settings and change only the appropriate networking settings for the virtual machine's network environment (for example, frame type is an appropriate setting to change for the virtual machine).

Allow the client software installation program to reboot the virtual machine once ZENworks is installed. The next time the virtual machine boots, the client software should start up automatically. Refer to Novell documentation to find additional configuration information for ZENworks client software.

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