Virtual PC and Ubuntu
With the recent move by Microsoft to make VirtualPC a free download; I downloaded it and tried it on my computer. Ofcourse the only ‘other’ OS I wanted to install was Ubuntu and see how it looks. I have to see; it was very easy to install Ubuntu with Virtual PC; the only problem was that I had to hack the xorg.conf file to default to ‘16bit depth’ rather than 24. For some reason; VirualPC only support 16bit. So now I have ubuntu running inside a window on my compute.. How cool is that?
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February 24th, 2007 in
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I have the same configuration, Virtual PC 2007 and running Ubuntu 6.10 inside. However, I found Ubuntu to be pretty unstable, the Desktop locks up once in 15 minutes (you have to kill X with Ctrl Alt Backspace) to revive it. Also, the keyboard support sucks, keys reachable with Ctrl+Alt (like the []{}) in the locale I use do not work. And of course, the ugly hack you mentioned to get it running in the first place.