CelticWhisper Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 I'm trying to setup Slackware 12 under VPC2007 and am running into the usual graphical glitches. The odd thing is, when I Ctrl+Alt+F2 to try to get to a text terminal, the glitches are still there and I can't see more than 3-4 lines. Has anyone figured out a way around this in order to get Slack (or really any distro - a "universal" fix would be great) working nicely under VPC? Thanks a million. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simsie Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 Probably not what you want, but have you tried using Innotek Virtualbox (Google it) instead. It's free and (to me anyway) better than Virtual PC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CelticWhisper Posted January 18, 2008 Author Share Posted January 18, 2008 At this point I'm open to anything. As for VirtualBox, is it just freeware or is it GPL? Not that it matters all that much, but I'm curious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simsie Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 There is a GPL Open source version, but then there is a version that isn't because they add some things they don't want to release the source to or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CelticWhisper Posted January 18, 2008 Author Share Posted January 18, 2008 Weird. I'm trying the personal/evaluation version now. As for the open-source version, does anyone know if it can be built without Visual Studio? I have Bloodshed Dev-C++ but no Visual C++. Am I SOL or is there still a way to build it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carpo Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 try vmware Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted January 18, 2008 Veteran Share Posted January 18, 2008 try vmware Without any personal experience, I can say that I have heard of many "glitches" with MSVPC, and VMWare is pretty well-known for how well it works with Linux. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadgeek9 Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 VMWare Server, it is free (www.vmware.com) and I have never had a problem with Linux on it (but I've only tried out SuSE and Fedora). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carpo Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 before Microsoft bought it VC was good and would run anything, then after they bought it, the problems with Linux began - funny that innit!! :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CelticWhisper Posted January 21, 2008 Author Share Posted January 21, 2008 In all fairness, I've had Linux problems with VPC even back in the Connectix days. I remember all kinds of headaches trying to get Red Hat 7 running on it. Anyway, VirtualBox runs great, so thank you very much for the help. I'm actually going to give Shift a try since I've never used it before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ron963 Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 I don't think Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 supports Linux. I know VMware does so give that a try. It is tricky to install because it took my instructor couple days to make it work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borbus Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 I remember posting on Neowin years ago when I was trying to get Fedora core 2 to work in MS Virtual PC. X server couldn't start. I guess they have interest in fixing this bug, in fact they probably put it in intentionally for some reason, I mean if they're properly emulating a VESA graphics adapter then X should work. Anyway, VirtualBox and VMWare are great. I use VirtualBox with a Windows guest so I can test my web stuff on IE6 and 7. With Intel VT it runs at pretty much native speed (I didn't do any benchmarks, maybe it's the same speed without VT). I used the GPL version but I had trouble building the kernel module or getting it to work anyway. I switched to the personal use binary anyway because I wanted the guest extensions (seemless mouse integration etc). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Lef Posted May 21, 2008 Share Posted May 21, 2008 Installing Slackware 12.1 in a Virtual PC 2007 is easy but there are a trouble to solve. After running X11, with "startx" or with "init 4", You could discover that the "text mode" does not continue to work when you stop X11 or when you use "ALT CTRL F?" to change display (The display become black). I found it is because of the vga mode running the kernel : "vga=773" in /etc/lilo.conf. If you change in "vga=0" (do not forget to run "lilo" and reboot after change) Instead to edit this file, the choose could be done during the installation when configuring lilo ! Than you have a display trouble when the slackware run at start "/etc/rc.d/rc.udev start". To solve this trouble, You could "chmod -x /etc/rc.d/rc.udev" But than the mouse do not work because the module is not loaded and you must run "modprobe psmouse" before running X11. The trouble come from loading by udev of the module "s3fb". A best way de solve the trouble is to avoid udev to load this module. That can be done by adding in the file "/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist" the line "blacklist s3fb". Than X11 display and text display work ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CelticWhisper Posted May 23, 2008 Author Share Posted May 23, 2008 Wow, wasn't expecting a response to this thread, but thanks! I'll give that a try next time I'm testing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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