Hi Yong Kwang, I have SLES 10 SP1 running fine in Virtual PC 2007, but on Vista. I also have Windows Server 2003 on Xen in SLES 10.
Have you tried SLES? Thanks, Chris On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Goh, Yong-Kwang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > 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 >
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