NICs not visible to Netware VM in VMWare

  • 7000325
  • 06-May-2008
  • 27-Apr-2012

Environment

Novell NetWare 6.5 Support Pack 7
Novell NetWare 6.5 Support Pack 6
Novell NetWare 6.5 Support Pack 5
VMware 3.5 ESX server

Situation

When creating a virtual machine for Netware 6.5 in VMware, only one NIC could be seen by the VM.

Resolution

When creating a VM you must choose the network option to select how many NICs you want to make available to the VM machines. If this is not done, then the VM machines won't see any NICs even though the host machine sees them fine.