Slackware installed and ran fine on Virtual PC 2007. I forget the
version, probably Slackware 12.0.
Regards
Kin Fui
Goh, Yong-Kwang wrote:
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
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