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A few months ago I spent a lot of time trying to get Ubuntu 10.4 to work with Virtual PC on Vista with absoluetly no luck and a lot of cussing.

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If you've solved any of these, specific to Ubuntu 10.4, then please let me know and I'll update this post. Of course, using the Virtual Box virtualization tool works great with Ubuntu right out of the box and includes Virtual Additions that are custom to Linux and allow resizing, but I was (am) hoping to get this VPC thing working completely so I can stick with my one standard virtualization solution.

No mouse wheel - hacks found around don't appear to work.

No sound - faking it with modprobe snd-sb16 doesn't work.

Ignore the error about Casper and just press enter.Īt this point with Ubuntu 10.4 on Virtual PC: I had to hit enter a few times in text mode to get it to finally restart. NOW you can restart using the on-off button dealie on in the upper-right corner. Add noreplace-paravirt (remember that) after args='$4' like this:įinally, run 'update-grub' from the command line. Save with Ctrl-X, then run nano /etc/grub.d/10_linux from the terminal to edit one more file. Oddly, while the codes for resolutions seem to work initially, X switches back to 800圆00 when it starts. Mark also recommends commenting outu GRUD_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT with a #. That last line will bring up a text editor.įrom the text editor, change 'quiet splash' to VGA=788 or one of the VGA codes from this table. From Marks's blog, type: sudo mount -o bind /dev /media/THATGUID/dev

You'll also want to rearrange the windows so you can open up a Terminal Window (from Applications, Accessories) and have the two near each other. You're going to need to type that, so get emotionally ready. That will open up a disk browsing window with a GUID (yes, a GUID) in the title bar. Now, go to the Places Menu in the top menu and click your File System. Instead, you need to make a few changes to make your new system bootable. Wait a while.and IMPORTANT do not restart when it's done or you are screwed.

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You can get out with Ctrl+Alt+Left Arrow.ĭouble-Click Install Ubuntu and start the process using all the defaults. If you click in your VM, the mouse will be captured. You find yourself at a desktop.make sure that from Tools|Settings that your Network Card in the VM is attached to a REAL physical network card. Then add vga=791 noreplace-paravirt at the end of the white command line so it looks like: If you let it just boot without hitting ESC it'll start a bit, then give up. IMPORTANT: When it starts booting, hit ESC when you see a blinking cursor, then you'll find yourself here. In the Settings for your VM, tell it that the DVD drive actually be the Ubuntu ISO that you downloaded. I saw some strangeness with dynamically expanding disks.

I find this is faster and can avoid some strange disk errors with Ubuntu and the VM.

When you create a Hard Drive, create a Fixed one rather than a dynamic one. I have 8 gigs on my machine, so I give it probably more than was needed and allocated 3gigs. Go into the Virtual Machines folder, and click Create Virtual Machine.(When you have VPC, you can also some of the various free IE browser testing VMs as well).(You don't need to get Windows XP Mode, but if you want, it's nice.).

If you have new or update or better info that is specific to the new changes in Ubuntu 10.4, let me know. I'm trying to make this post as complete as possible. I did now find some useful command-line parameters in this blog post from Mark Wilson.

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There's lots of info spread around on how to install various older versions of Ubuntu under various older versions of Virtual PC, but I didn't find any referring to the newish Ubuntu 10.4 and VPC on Win 7.

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