also, try

http://www.virtualbox.org/

it works in my OS X as well as Linux and Windows.

>
>    1. Re: Running Linux on Virtual Machines (chris ismael)
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "chris ismael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Goh, Yong-Kwang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:52:16 +0800
> Subject: Re: [Slugnet] Running Linux on Virtual Machines
> 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
> >
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> >
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