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re: Fedora 8 (werewolf) on Virtual PC 2007

rcorral — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 20:00:39 GMT

Hello Sean!!!

Thanks to your intructions Fedora 8 is running inside my Virtual PC.

All is working perfectly but when I switch to Virtual PC full screen mode, the screen area is not used completely, do you know how to correct this issue?

Thanks in advance!!

Rodrigo Corral

re: Fedora 8 (werewolf) on Virtual PC 2007

Zian — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:41:18 GMT

Thanks for the instructions! I was on the verge of giving up on Linux again.

re: Fedora 8 (werewolf) on Virtual PC 2007

smearp — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:00:46 GMT

Hey Rodrigo-

That is because you likely have your Fedora resolution set to 800x600, and your monitor set to something higher. When you go full screen, you would need to set your Fedora Resolution to whatever your native Windows resolution is.

You would normally do this in Fedora under System --> Preferences --> Hardware --> Screen Resolution. Unfortunately, there don't seem to any other screen resolutions to change to. You will want to play around with your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to adjust the screen resolution.

re: Fedora 8 (werewolf) on Virtual PC 2007

jtranok — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 08:10:56 GMT

you the "man" sean, thx a million.

this is the best community i've been in yet.

re: Fedora 8 (werewolf) on Virtual PC 2007

jtranok — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 03:44:21 GMT

thanks for the help, but now everytime i start fedora i have to do the i8042no.loop after the kernel entry, is there a way around that?

re: Fedora 8 (werewolf) on Virtual PC 2007

smearp — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:41:26 GMT

@jtranok-

Scroll about 2/3 the way through my post until you find the part that says "After logging in, let's fix that mouse problem for once and for all. "

What follows is the instructions for solving the problem so you don't need to type it in each time you boot :)

re: Fedora 8 (werewolf) on Virtual PC 2007

smearp — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:42:44 GMT

Great tip emailed to me by reader Rainer:

Just a hint to simplify the installation: When the installation asks where to install GRUB there is an option to enter additional kernel parameters. Adding the i8042.noloop parameter there works also, so there is no need to interrupt the restart and to manually edit the boot options.

Fedora 8 on Virtual PC 2007

Web White Noise — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:07:22 GMT

One thing about Fedora 8 I have noticed is that if you try to install it in Virtual PC 2007 the video display will be messed up if you use the GUI install. At the boot screen hit "tab" for additiona...

re: Fedora 8 (werewolf) on Virtual PC 2007

andrewtechelp — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 06:59:31 GMT

Thank you very much for your tutorials on running Fedora 8 in Microsoft Virtual PC. I recently got Fedora 8 on the cover of my APC Magazine disc and I wanted to try it out and now I can :).

Andrew

re: Fedora 8 (werewolf) on Virtual PC 2007

ronrysanek — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:26:56 GMT

Sean,

To the best set of instructions. Thank you.

Ron

re: Fedora 8 (werewolf) on Virtual PC 2007

ronrysanek — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:26:56 GMT

Sean,

To the best set of instructions. Thank you.

Ron

re: Fedora 8 (werewolf) on Virtual PC 2007

rremedios — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 04:10:30 GMT

Thanks for the instructions.

I installed under Virtual PS 2007 and encounterted the mouse issues. But thanks to your blog, I got around this.

re: Fedora 8 (werewolf) on Virtual PC 2007

rremedios — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 04:12:28 GMT

How to solve the entering the WEP key for the wirless network USB key?

re: Fedora 8 (werewolf) on Virtual PC 2007

rremedios — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 05:35:39 GMT

strike the question on the wep key. VP2007 reconized the wirless network key.

A question on using the daemon tools lite and accessing 1 or more drives in VP2007. Is this possible?

re: Fedora 8 (werewolf) on Virtual PC 2007

alek_p — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:54:38 GMT

I followed the instructions but it seems i have some problem.

Installing process hangs at 3.0.8-44.fc8.noarch package(Installing SElinux policy)-package 545(870)

Any ideas what can be wrong?

Thanks in advance.

re: Fedora 8 (werewolf) on Virtual PC 2007

alek_p — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:24:58 GMT

I have finally installed fedora 8,but not on Virtual pc 2007,but on 2004.Maybe that was the problem-I don't know.

Anyway,

Thank you very much for the instructions.

Everything works just like you said

Thanks again:)

re: Fedora 8 (werewolf) on Virtual PC 2007

sgoethals — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:05:35 GMT

Your instructions work great. One question however. When I use the Ctrl-Alt combination to switch to another termnal, all I receive is light (dimmed) text, with graphical bards running across the screen. The page works, but I can only see a portion of the screen, and it isn't a nice clean screen. Any ideas.

Scott

re: Fedora 8 (werewolf) on Virtual PC 2007

franck.bonin — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:06:48 GMT

to clean remaining screen problem use following boot params :

"vesa i8042.noloop psmouse.proto=imps clock=pit vga=771"

re: Fedora 8 (werewolf) on Virtual PC 2007

JayZee — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 05:52:26 GMT

This final tweak did fix my remaining screen problems. But I have to enter the vga=771 parameter each time I boot. How can I make it permanent?

frank.bonin wrote:

to clean remaining screen problem use following boot params :

"vesa i8042.noloop psmouse.proto=imps clock=pit vga=771"

re: Fedora 8 (werewolf) on Virtual PC 2007

smearp — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:43:08 GMT

Scroll up a bit in the post and find the section that says "After logging in, let's fix that mouse problem for once and for all"

Instead of just adding the i8042.noloop, add Frank's entire line. That should do it! :)

re: Fedora 8 (werewolf) on Virtual PC 2007

bsamuel — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:27:49 GMT

Hi,

I tried to make it perminant by following every step, but it is not making it perminant.

any ideas?

re: Fedora 8 (werewolf) on Virtual PC 2007

JasonJ387 — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 13:37:25 GMT

I had the same problem, but mine had a simple explanation - the text editor saw fit to split the line with a carraige return, so the part with the i8042 bit on was no longer on the same line as the kernel.

Once I removed the carraige return the parameters worked perfect

Thanks Sean

P.s. I'm new to the whole linux thing, is there another excelent tutorial anywhere showing a beginner how to set up the prepackaged FTP server and a seperate one for setting up the prepackaged Mail server?

cheers

re: Fedora 8 (werewolf) on Virtual PC 2007

aj59 — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:21:29 GMT

These instructions worked great for me. The only problem is I can't change my resolution to 1280x1024. I have editted the xorg.conf to no avail and system-config-display will not run. Plus, everytime I try to shut down X to go into text mode, the screen looks terrible. I'm wondering if, and where, I should add that "vesa i8042.noloop psmouse.proto=imps clock=pit vga=771" comment from above. To the boot options in the grub loader for the kernel? Thanks.

re: Fedora 8 (werewolf) on Virtual PC 2007

chaban — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:57:29 GMT

how to set up resolution 1024x768

re: Fedora 8 (werewolf) on Virtual PC 2007

chaban — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:10:02 GMT

I have problem when switching to full screen the resolution is not match

please help me

Fedora 8 under Virtual PC 2007

Noticias externas — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:19:14 GMT

So this is a bit old - but somehow I missed this great post by my colleague, Sean Earp, on how to install

Linux u Virtual PC-u

Virtualization — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:40:59 GMT

U zadnje vrijeme blago sam zapostavio konkurenciju, pa zelim ovim i slijedecim postovima to ispraviti

Linux dans Virtual PC

pascals.blog — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 04:30:29 GMT

Le blog de Sean Earp contient des articles très complets sur un sujet qui en intéresse plus

re: Fedora 8 (werewolf) on Virtual PC 2007

tommcgee57 — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 06:18:31 GMT

The instructions were great, but I couldn't get it to use my wireless or wired ethernet. There was also some wierdness about sound. The detect sound cart function worked and I could hear the test, but the volume control was disabled and the sound preferences pane froze when I clicked the test buttons.

I restarted and modified the configurations in the VPC Networking Panel (one, the other, both, none), but now when I try and boot up it stalls with "Error 11: Unrecognized Device String". Clicking "any key to continue" brings me to the grub screen, but I don't know where to go from here. Trying to boot the selected option only sends me back to the Error 11 screen.

Here's the whole screen:

Booting 'Fedora (2.6.23.1-42.fc8)'

root (hd0,0)

Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x03

Kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.23-1-42.fc8 ro

[Linux-bzimage, setup=0x2c00, size=0x1e0320]

root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVo100 rhgb quit i8042.noloop

Error 11: Unrecognized device string

Press any key to continue...

re: Fedora 8 (werewolf) on Virtual PC 2007

tycen — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:03:01 GMT

@chaban

I don't remember the exact steps, but to get a higher screen resolution you need to go into your Monitor settings and pick a Default (or Standard?) Monitor of whatever resolution you want. Then when you go into the resolution settings you'll have higher options. The Monitor settings are in System > Admin (or something like that) - just look around, you'll find the monitor settings.

re: Fedora 8 (werewolf) on Virtual PC 2007

ahforero — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:52:24 GMT

I just found these notes and have been of excellent help. Thank you Sean, thank you all.

Alberto

re: Fedora 8 (werewolf) on Virtual PC 2007

jscan1 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:19:07 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for this info.

I thought i had the system installed ok but after first install I am now getting the error:

Booting 'Fedora (2.6.23.1-42.fc8)'

root (hd0,0)

Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet

Error 15: File not found

Press any key to continue..._

I have googled this issue but cannot find realistic help on it - please bear in mind that i am new to linux

I am starting a second install to see if it will work the second time - but i've stumbled across an error (which may be the cause of the problem) :

The partition table on device sda was unreadable. To create new partitions, it must be initialized, causing the loss of ALL DATA on the drive.

Would you like to initialize this drive?

I have an open query on experts exchange on it - and it appears it might be a sata issue?

Has any body else has this issue or would anyone have any advice?

Regards,

Joe

re: Fedora 8 (werewolf) on Virtual PC 2007

jscan1 — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:43:59 GMT

Just to follow up on the above - I got help from Experts Exchange and the soloution was to add this in the boot command:

linux acpi=off libata.dma=0 libata.ignore_hpa=1 noapic vesa i8042.noloop

(all one line)

Thanks again Sean for providing this blog, it's really great to have a working virtual Fedora install

re: Fedora 8 (werewolf) on Virtual PC 2007

jamesisin — Tue, 06 May 2008 03:22:10 GMT

I am seeing some trouble with the mouse still. My file looks just like yours in /boot/grub/menu.lst; however, I still have to manually enter the code at grub load if I want the mouse to function. What may I have done wrong?

re: Fedora 8 (werewolf) on Virtual PC 2007

gorete — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:13:28 GMT

Virtual PC 2007 is very slow than the other virtualization softwares. Maybe newer version will be better! I hope.

re: Fedora 8 (werewolf) on Virtual PC 2007

berdoggy — Sat, 10 May 2008 22:25:22 GMT

I am just beginning with Linux. I followed the above instructions, and got to the main screen ok. I didn't see a "Welcome" screen, so I rebooted, and I guess it came up, but it didn't look right (didn't have the right resolution or something). I rebooted again, added the line suggested by aj59 (vesa i8042.noloop psmouse.proto=imps clock=pit vga=771), but got the same thing. Any ideas?

re: Fedora 8 (werewolf) on Virtual PC 2007

icme — Mon, 19 May 2008 00:46:17 GMT

Hi guys!

I managed to sort out your resolution issue. Believ it or not this is the first time I ever work on any linux system!

Ok you want to follow the steps like at the top of this page. Then once running make sure the graphics is set to thousands, restart xpanel then edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file by reverting back to the s3 driver and make sure that default depth and depth is set to 16 and not 24!!!. Restart the xpanel again, now select your monitor (If not listed select a generic monitor matching your supported resolution and restert the xpanel. Now you will be able to set the resolution to 1024x768. You can go up to 1280x768?!

Installing Fedora 9 (Sulphur) in Virtual PC 2007

The Sean Blog — Mon, 19 May 2008 06:10:30 GMT

Fedora 9 was released last week, which you can download here: http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora.html

re: Fedora 8 (werewolf) on Virtual PC 2007

capthowdy — Wed, 13 May 2009 10:07:09 GMT

Thanks to all for all the amazing info!! It definately helped me get my virtual PC for Fedora 8 and Fedora 10 up and running smoothly!!

Just a quick note to Jscan1: I also had the error that you mentioned both in Fedora 8, and Fedora 10...

"I am starting a second install to see if it will work the second time - but i've stumbled across an error (which may be the cause of the problem) :

The partition table on device sda was unreadable. To create new partitions, it must be initialized, causing the loss of ALL DATA on the drive.

Would you like to initialize this drive?"

I had tried the line of code that you had mentioned, but it was just not working for me... so I "took a dive" so to speak and installed it despite the warning on an external drive. I have come to find out that Fedora can only "see" the virtual drive that you set initially, so it can not effect the rest of your drive. You can safely install it anywhere, including a USB flash drive if you wish.

Thanks again for the posts everyone! I will definately be coming back here again!

Rob

re: Fedora 8 (werewolf) on Virtual PC 2007

jimcpl — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:39:53 GMT

Hi,

I needed to install Fedora 8 for a special test that I'm doing, so the original blog above was helpful to get Fedora 8 to the point it was installed.

However, after the installation, when I added the "i8042.noloop" to the GRUB line, Fedora would hang during the boot.

If I left off the "i8042.noloop", Fedora would boot, but no mouse.

I was kind of ticked by that point, after the amount of time it took to get this installed, then I found frank bonin's comment above:

"to clean remaining screen problem use following boot params :

"vesa i8042.noloop psmouse.proto=imps clock=pit vga=771"

So, I tried that, and BINGO, the boot wouldn't hang, and I also had mouse in X!!

Cool!

Thanks,

Jim