Installing Fedora 9 (Sulphur) in Virtual PC 2007

re: Installing Fedora 9 (Sulphur) in Virtual PC 2007

vitai.lampada — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:30:45 GMT

Unfortunately, this is not a complete solution for the LiveCD - graphics-glitch city!

Will repost if I find a solution...

re: Installing Fedora 9 (Sulphur) in Virtual PC 2007

xatnet — Wed, 21 May 2008 13:43:05 GMT

For the LiveCD I had to add vga=0x32D to the end of the boot paramaters to change the vesa mode to 16bit to get rid of the graphics "glitch".

Fedora 9 and Vista Ultimate Running Virtual Machine 2007 in x64 Environment Fails

Shaun Cassells at MyITForum.com — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:03:06 GMT

I have been playing with Linux distribution Fedora 9. However, I cannot get it to install in my Microsoft

Installing Fedora 9 in Virtual PC 2007

Virtual PC Guy's WebLog — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:59:48 GMT

Sean has a great post on how to get this to work over here: http://blogs.technet.com/seanearp/archive/2008/05/19/installing-fedora-9-sulphur-in-virtual-pc-2007.aspx

re: Installing Fedora 9 (Sulphur) in Virtual PC 2007

jscan1 — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:09:14 GMT

Thanks a mill Sean - that parameter was JUST what i was looking for for an updated kernel on fedora 8

Thanks for the post

JobGuru1337 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:20:03 GMT

Just fyi, This fix works for Windows Virt Srv as well. Thanks again!!

re: Installing Fedora 9 (Sulphur) in Virtual PC 2007

gusac — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:37:03 GMT

my fedora installation was in reboot loop after the screen where it gves option to select installation.

after following your suggestion, i ws able to go beyond that, but not it doesnt detect the CD rom or the hdd.it asks for the drivers.

so its a dead end again for me. :|

BTW, im installing FC9 on VS 2005 R2

re: Installing Fedora 9 (Sulphur) in Virtual PC 2007

Bambi535 — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:02:31 GMT

Hi,

The wheel on my wheel mouse will not work.

To remedy one can add this:

psmouse.proto=imps

to the end of the kernel boot options.

(source: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=100706#post619384)

re: Installing Fedora 9 (Sulphur) in Virtual PC 2007 - tty / console problem

Bambi535 — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:33:48 GMT

The tty (console) will be distorted. It will show three vague lines and then graphics garbage. I found the solution here:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-installation-40/slackware-with-virtual-pc-2007-588374/#post3159975

The solution is to edit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and add the line:

blacklist s3fb

Also, edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and make sure that under

Section "Device"

ypu have

Driver "vesa"

(or anything but "s3").

re: Installing Fedora 9 (Sulphur) in Virtual PC 2007 - huge screen resolution

Bambi535 — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:39:16 GMT

Next I had a problem with huge screen resolution - way larger than my display permits.

So, I edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf, scrolled down to

SubSection "Display"

and added this line

Modes "1024x768"

then rebooted.

What about Virtual Machine Additions?

duskos — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:51:03 GMT

thanks for the post, but without VM Additions it is really hard to play with FC 9. I tried to install them, but failed miserably and gave up (for now). Can you please finish the job and show us how to install VM additions?

Thanks.

re: Installing Fedora 9 (Sulphur) in Virtual PC 2007

heaths — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:19:24 GMT

Any suggestions for getting the VM Additions installed? What's available (2.0) on the DC works with the old X11 and doesn't seem to add the kernel mod. In fact, install.sh is clearly only for "RedHat" (specifically) and no Fedora.

re: Installing Fedora 9 (Sulphur) in Virtual PC 2007

eric.lafnitzegger — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:55:13 GMT

After looking through your advise and the kernel parameters available, I was able to fix the error above by setting 'clocksource=pit'.

The fix you suggested with kernal parameter 'noreplace-paravirt' also affects the way the clock is implemented. I am wondering if the core to the problem isn't the paravirt fix but just the way the tsc clock, implemented in the core, is interacting with the virtual hardware.

re: Installing Fedora 9 (Sulphur) in Virtual PC 2007

careyhung — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:02:51 GMT

I've updated my Guest Fedora 9 with yum update

but now when I restart my guest os

it shows the follwoing error and idled:

kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task

what should I do??

re: Installing Fedora 9 (Sulphur) in Virtual PC 2007

tinhead — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:02:21 GMT

Here's an interesting conundrum with VPC2007 and VS2005 - it seems that the display in the text mode (runlevel 3) for Fedora 7, 8 and 9 is garbled. Anyone have any ideas on how to get rid of that?

Screenshot image is here:

http://raj.jp/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/fedora-virtual-server-problem.jpg

re: Installing Fedora 9 (Sulphur) in Virtual PC 2007

fraz1019 — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:18:23 GMT

can u please tell me that is it applicable to x64 bit computers????

re: Installing Fedora 9 (Sulphur) in Virtual PC 2007

fraz1019 — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:31:58 GMT

i am trying to install Fedora 9 on HP wx 4300 work station. but error says no boot media??

please help me i am beginner to linux.

Installation STOPS !!

vastheaven — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:45:55 GMT

I don't why the installation stoped. I've tried many times, the installing always stoped (sometime half installed) and the VM was totaly dead. Before stop there always was a popup says something about VM additons.

Anybody know this problem?!!

MS VPC 2007 + Xen 3.1.4，启动失败: Unrecoverable processor error

CB's Blog — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:27:32 GMT

Microsoft Virtual PC 2007，安装Redhat Enterprise Linux AS4 i386版，可以运行。不过，VPC不支持64位的Linux，即便你的CPU支持VT。下载Xen 3.1.4的源码，编译成功。注意，需要Linux-2.6.18.8的kernel 源码包，�

Post Install: Unrecoverable Processor Error

dr.fuct — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:40:05 GMT

the above info for FC9 over vPC07 was great! i am however still having the message box appear after my installation. How can this be solved?

Also, I have allocated 16 GB Dynamic space to the drive itself.

After the Grub Boot Loader it continues through the console boot process then fails. Here's a dump of the data before receiving the error message:

"an unrecoverable processor error has been encountered. The virtual machine will reset now."

Post Install: Unrecoverable Processor Error

dr.fuct — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:40:49 GMT

the above info for FC9 over vPC07 was great! i am however still having the message box appear after my installation. How can this be solved?

Also, I have allocated 16 GB Dynamic space to the drive itself.

After the Grub Boot Loader it continues through the console boot process then fails. Here's a dump of the data before receiving the error message:

"an unrecoverable processor error has been encountered. The virtual machine will reset now."

---------

Booting 'Fedora (2.6.25-14.fc9.i686)'\

root (hd0,0)

Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83

kernal /vmlinuz-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 ro root=UUID=294037d6-6cc0-4605-b1d1-de0938ce50d3 rhgb quiet

[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x3000, size=0.1fab60]

intrd /initrd-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686.i686.img

[Linux-initrd @ 0x1fcba000, 0x325a09 bytes]

Decompressing Linux... done.

Booting the kernel.

nevermind

dr.fuct — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:51:36 GMT

nevermind.. i'm a tard & missed a step

No Boot Media Error for FC9 Install in VPC 2007

ashemonster — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 04:55:07 GMT

Some older computers and some laptops seem to run into this "no boot media" error because the CD/DVD drive is not being recognized (even though it may with other operating systems). An alternative to resolving this issue is to try the install on a different PC or add a different CD/DVD drive (if possible).

I attempted to do this install on my Dell Inspiron E1705 laptop, it didn't recognized the CD/DVD burner drive, even though other operating systems recognized it just fine. So, I installed it on my desktop, WinZip'd the two files (7GB down to 1GB), copied them to my laptop, unzipped them, ran the vmc file, logged in, modified the grub.conf file**, and finished my updates. (still has video issues during booting but I'll resolve that later) Hope that helps someone...

* Download VPC 2007 sp1, it's free for those using older versions (if your system permits).

** Editting the /etc/grub.conf helped a lot, thanks (especially after updates, I added a comment to remind myself).

re: Installing Fedora 9 (Sulphur) in Virtual PC 2007

jimcpl — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:45:30 GMT

Hi,

I just installed Fedora 9 under Virtual PC 2007 SP1.

During the install, I added the "noreplace-paravirt".

As Fedora booted, I got a popup indicating that Virtual PC 2007 itself had crashed, and asking if I wanted to send a report to MS.

I left that popup up, and the installation went completely through and finished.

Now, when I boot the guest with Fedora 9, I get that VPC crashing (note, not the GUEST crashing, but the entire VPC).

Anyone seen this and have a solution for it?

Thanks,

Jim

re: Installing Fedora 9 (Sulphur) in Virtual PC 2007

jimcpl — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:46:08 GMT

P.S. VPC crashes when Fedora 9 starts whether I add the "noreplace-paravirt" or not.

Jim

re: Installing Fedora 9 (Sulphur) in Virtual PC 2007

jimcpl — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:02:59 GMT

Hi,

I think that I just figured out the reason why VPC was crashing. I had a serial port (COM1:) setup in the guest settings.

I disabled that in the VPC console, and the Fedora 9 guest boots up without crashing now.

Jim