On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 10:53:20PM +0200, Bo Berglund wrote:
This is a more appropriate subject for the thread where I would like
to get some advice on how to actually succeed in getting Fdora7 to run
in a virtual machine under Microsoft VPC2007.
1) VPC2007 emulates a Trio64 video card, but unfortunately not 100%.
The 24 bit color depth mode is not supported unless the VESA driver is
used. The S3 Trio64 driver's usage of 24 bit color breaks the display
completely.
2) VPC2007 emulates the keyboard and mouse as PS/2 devices. THis was
not a problem until recently when the Linux kernel acquired a bug of
sorts when it does not recognize the PS/2 mouse out of the box. No
mouse means no install...
I don't use Microsoft products, including VPC2007, so this is a guess,
not a known working solution.
To avoid both of these, I would try a text only installation. At the
end of installation, before rebooting, I would edit /etc/inittab to
come up in run level 3 (no X).
You can then reboot, and use system-config-display to set up the
display. Once you have the display where you want it, and you are
comfortable that you can restart X multiple times, change the run
level to 5 if you like.
You can always boot into run level 3 by appending " 3" to the command
line in grub.
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