[BUGS] Really small distro

[harrywwc]

warning, danger will robinson, warning.

MS Virtual PC has issues with *IX installs - well, actually, it has 
issues with X.org / Xfree86. the install seems to proceed just fine, the 
test of the x-server works fine, but on reboot... let's say, you need to 
remember the root password and go and hand edit xorg.conf (or xf86's 
config).

VPC "lies" to the installers somehow, and when you start "for real", my 
experience is getting the X server going needs manual intervention. Oh, 
the fix I've found is to tell the system to use the 'vesa' driver, not 
(IIRC) the 's3'.

Very rarely have an issue with VirtualBox - I've had some, but fewer and 
less drastic than VPC.

hth,

.h

Brad Rushworth wrote:
> Jerahmy Pocott wrote on 17/10/2008 4:13 PM:
>> Yeah it runs fine in a VM, I'm just not sure what "free vms" you can  
>> get for windows?
>>
>> I also don't really care, since I don't run windows as a host os, but  
>> the OP does..
>>
>> Is Virtual PC free?
>>
> 
> This is free (in the beer sense). Just go to Microsoft website and 
> download it. You should have it all working within an hour. No money 
> spent. (Assuming you already have a valid Windows XP license.)
> 
> Brad
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