Hi, I've been trying to give some Linux distro a spin on my WinXP machine running Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 but without success. There simply isn't not even one distro that works within Virtual PC, although I've googling and people are reporting success with Virtual PC running most distro, though not sure if they were using Virtual PC 2004 or 2007.
I've downloaded and tried to run the following distros' CD ISO image. 1. kwort 2.2 2. Vector Linux Standard 5.9 3. Xubuntu 7.10 Desktop 4. Zenwalk 5.0 5. Debian 40r2 (Etch) Xubuntu boots up to XFCE and the whole screen is corrupted with coloured vertical lines. I gave up. kwort 2.2, Vector Linux Standard and Zenwalk hangs. The virtual machines didn't even try to boot off the ISO image, just hang at the BIOS. And it took forever to acquire an IP address from DHCP. Debian hanged halfway during base system installation, when transiting to the next package. A reboot of the virtual machine managed to but again, hang at a different later point when trying to fetch some package over the Internet. Anyone ever managed to get Linux running fine on Microsoft Virtual PC 2007? Oh well, maybe this is really what I getting for free from Microsoft - a Virtual PC 2007 that doesn't work. At work, I use VMware Server instead and it gave me less problem, though it is really more heavyweight. Goh, Yong Kwang Singapore Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
