Tenny
07.18.2007, 07:24.PM
So, I was bored today and downloaded Ubuntu 7.04 at work today, and Virtual PC 2007. I am now running Ubuntu 7.04 within Windows XP Pro. It's a bit slow, and a few things didn't work perfectly but it mostly works pretty well.
Also Virtual PC only allows 16bit color, and not 24bit, so I had to install it in safe mode, but it booted up fine the first itme, so that was just a minor problem.
A few problems I ran into was no mouse, so I had to add the i8042.noloop to get the mouse working, then i edited the grub boot loader to have it automatically add that to the command line.
For anyone that is interested in the fixes I did, you can start out here: http://www.nettakeaway.com/tp/article/294/ubuntu-704-and-no-mouse-on-virtual-pc
Also Virtual PC only allows 16bit color, and not 24bit, so I had to install it in safe mode, but it booted up fine the first itme, so that was just a minor problem.
A few problems I ran into was no mouse, so I had to add the i8042.noloop to get the mouse working, then i edited the grub boot loader to have it automatically add that to the command line.
For anyone that is interested in the fixes I did, you can start out here: http://www.nettakeaway.com/tp/article/294/ubuntu-704-and-no-mouse-on-virtual-pc