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giovanni
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Anyone had any luck installing a Linux distro on Virtaul PC in Windows 7 (64 bits host, but I guess it shouldn't matter).

I just downloaded the ISO i386 image of Fedora 11, created a virtial pc, loaded the ISO file, but the screen disappears a few seconds after selecting the install option (I tried the first two options). I tried with "noreplace-paravirt" and "noreplace-paravirt i8042.noloop clock=pit" parameters which helped me in the past with Virtual PC 2007 and an older Fedora and Suse verion, but nothing happened this time.

Anyone has tried and succeded? Thanks

PaoloM
Hypermediocrity

Ubuntu 9.04 worked just fine (Windows 7 32 bits)

cro

In reply to PaoloM

#Oct 26th @ 9:39 AM

After reading your post I have install Ubuntu 9.04 on Virtual PC (Windows 7 64 bits). The only issue is that the mouse doesn't work in Ubuntu. Did you have the same issue ?

Bass
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Virtualbox is much better for virtualizing Linux guests.

Not only do they actually test and optimize their VM against a wide variety of Linux distros, they also have seamless mode, auto-resize, integrated mouse pointer, and a bunch of other paravirtualization features.

PaoloM
Hypermediocrity

In reply to cro

#Oct 26th @ 12:51 PM

No, works fine. The only thing is that you have to "uncapture" the mouse manually.

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In reply to Bass

#Oct 26th @ 1:34 PM

I find the new VMWare Player release candidate performs much better than Virtualbox for virtualizing Linux on my hardware, at least.

It's worth a look-- the new version makes it essentially a mini VMWare Workstation (it supports creating VMs now, and has other niceties like Unity mode, Aero support on Vista and 7, and multiple monitor support). And it has guest additions (enabling seamless mouse mode, Unity, file sharing, etc.) available for Linux, unlike VPC.

giovanni
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In reply to PaoloM

#Oct 26th @ 1:57 PM

Yop works fine here too, it might be an issue with my Fedora iso file. I will try downloading the CD instead of the DVD one and eventually try Virtualbox (thanks Bass).

Massif
aim stupidly high, expect to fail often.

In reply to cro

#Oct 26th @ 12:51 PM

I did have the mouse not working issue.. had to add a boot param, noloop something. Can't remember off the top of my head though.

cro

In reply to Massif

#Oct 27th @ 4:15 AM

Could you post your command-line ? I have try noloop but the vm shut down with it.

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In reply to cro

#Oct 29th @ 4:54 PM

Since this thread's been bumped anyways, figure I might as well mention that the new VMWare Player (with support for creating VMs) has been officially released. Should do better with Linux than VirtualBox or VPC.

bureX
Always a step ahead in stupidity.

Tried VirtualPC on Vista x64 with the latest edition of Fedora Linux... no luck. VMWare works just fine though.

giovanni
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In reply to bureX

#Oct 29th @ 5:33 PM

I think there is a problem with Fedora because Ubuntu worked right away. Fedorais one of the first distributions I tried (at the time was still Red Hat) and the first one I got to work with USB support on my first laptop. I would really like to get it to work with Virtual PC. I have nothing against other virtual machines, but I always try to install the least amount of softare, so it would be great if I could get everything to run under Virtual PC.

giovanni
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In reply to bureX

#Oct 29th @ 5:33 PM

Also Suse 11.1 seems to work flawlessly, it mist be a Fedora problem...

Erisan

In reply to giovanni

#Oct 30th @ 6:45 AM

Hmmh, just wonder if disabling KMS would help - common Fedora 11 bugs

If you are interested to try out Fedora 12, here's the nightly build - http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/desktop/

giovanni
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In reply to Erisan

#Oct 30th @ 6:59 AM

Thanks, I will try as soon as I can. I am also tempted by Fedora 12, but don't have much time now. I am finding Virtual PC a little limited for linux testing (excellent for XP mode, but I seem to have little glitches with Linux distributions), I think I will give VirtualBox a try as Bass suggested early.

Erisan

In reply to giovanni

#Oct 30th @ 8:21 AM

VirtualBox is indeed a good choice.

I did a Fedora 11 installation yesterday. I recommend to install yum-presto and yum-plugin-fastestmirror right after the installation because there is ~460M of updates to download Smiley . With yum-presto the size of updates dropped to 140M.