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. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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