Fedora 7 (Test 4) on Virtual PC 2007

re: Fedora 7 (Test 4) on Virtual PC 2007

phyler — Thu, 03 May 2007 17:22:39 GMT

Sean, why don't you test Solaris 10? Very similar to Linux. Or find some other obscure OS.

I'm enjoying reading your experiences with the different OS's and what it takes to get them going with Virtual PC.

re: Fedora 7 (Test 4) on Virtual PC 2007

smearp — Thu, 03 May 2007 20:00:51 GMT

Good question... I tried installing Solaris a year ago or so, and IIRC, the install didn't complete successfully. I'll download it tonight!

re: Fedora 7 (Test 4) on Virtual PC 2007

rsalama — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:53:34 GMT

I just tried Fedora 7 release, and the problem you noted with the screwed graphics is still there. Anyone have any luck with this distro?

thanks

re: Fedora 7 (Test 4) on Virtual PC 2007 - to the guy above me

bbowler86 — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:53:26 GMT

Have you gotten Fedora7 to work on VMWare? If so I'd be interested in hearing your experience with that? I am trying to find a virtualization software to run FedoraCore 7 on in the classroom.

re: Fedora 7 (Test 4) on Virtual PC 2007

Norochj — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 01:53:45 GMT

I don't know if you ever got it working or now, but this little trick works for both Fedora Core 6 and Fedora 7. When you get to the boot menu, add to the command line 'vesa' and it will work under Virtual PC. Also, when you are setting up in graphical mode, add that to the extra command line option. Unfortunately, you will probably run into the next problem (that happened with the updated kernel in version 6) your mouse probably won't work. Still trying to fix that problem.

Fedora 7 (2.6.21-1.3228) on Virtual PC 2007

faustino.com.pt — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:52:22 GMT

I had a hard time finding how to boot on text mode. Giving boot parameter "vga=771" solved the problem with the screwed graphics.

As for a clock problem I was also having, giving the boot parameters "clock=pit nosmp noapic nolapic" solved the problem.

Hope this helps!!

re: Fedora 7 (Test 4) on Virtual PC 2007

BobNoSurname — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:21:00 GMT

I changed the color depth from 24 to 16, as per a few comments & tried the vga=771 boot parameters, but still had the blank-screen issue reported on running startx (I am using Vista as a host m/c though). Found a comment somewhere that recommended Virtual-Box (http://www.virtualbox.org/), as opposed to Virtual PC, so risked that - and the graphical Fedora type-thing (I'm new to this Linux stuff) worked first time for me.

re: Fedora 7 (Test 4) on Virtual PC 2007

careyhung — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:00:59 GMT

After I installed Fedora 7 on VPC 2007, I've faced the same problem as above, since the screen is stuffed, I've remote connect to my VPC Fedora from my local PC with SSH or telnet. By trying to setup the system or start X, I found out that it has an error said "Data incomplete in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf Undefined Moniter "Moniter0" referenced by Screen "Screen0"

Maybe this is the main problem why the screen dosen't show up right. Any one got any idea how to config the "Monitor0" ???

re: Fedora 7 (Test 4) on Virtual PC 2007

careyhung — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:18:41 GMT

After Monitor Problem, I've facing another problem as bellow:

X: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//s3_drv.so: undefined symbol: RamDacInit

XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"

any one have and idea how to setup video driver???

Installing Fedora 9 (Sulphur) in Virtual PC 2007

The Sean Blog — Mon, 19 May 2008 06:10:27 GMT

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

re: Fedora 7 (Test 4) on Virtual PC 2007

Cloudmaster — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:14:06 GMT

I'd like to thank BobNoSurname for mentioning Virtualbox, I've just had a couple of attempts at getting Fedora 9 installed on Virtual PC 2007, now installing in graphical mode on Virtualbox with no apparent problems B-)