Comments on: Installing openSUSE 10.2 on Virtual PC Step by Step

By: Merik Sz

Merik Sz — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:16:16 +0000

I’ve tried OpenSUSE several times in a VPC install and it just hangs with a little terminal icon in the upper left corner while the help, back, next buttons are totally inoperative (I have a arrow head on a circle cursor). Any ideas? This is a Win7 host with lots of memory

By: Dinesh

Dinesh — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:08:38 +0000

If anybody trying openSUSE 11.3 on Virtual PC, then try this method. You have to issue a command before start the installation.

http://www.sysprobs.com/install-opensuse-113-virtual-pc-windows-7-host

By: Billy

Billy — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:05:39 +0000

I found that with Virtual 2007 and Suse 11.2, disabling hardware virtualization allowed my keyboard and mouse to work during the install. Strange since I was using a live cd and I could boot the live system just fine. Something screwy with the install i guess.

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:55:26 +0000

So how do I enable mouse after installation?

By: sam

sam — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:32:20 +0000

Edit your boot menu….and enter that command for mouse to work on.

By: bob

bob — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:55:11 +0000

To get the mouse working in openSUSE 10.3 you have to enter i8042.noloop in the field Boot Options in the installation screen.

How can I do that ??

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:00:26 +0000

Thats all well and good, the install went perfectly (thank you very much ), but now its installed I have no way to transfer files, get it online, listen to the sounds etc. as I have no clue how to install the virtual machine additions.

Please help a Linux noob and do the same wonderful type of guide (with pictures and small words) so we can get the best out of Linux in a VPC.

I have loaded it onto a VPC as I am thinking of using it as a main OS on another computer, and therefore expand my horizons and knowledge.

Thank you for taking the time and effort in producing this fantastic guide,

Brian

By: Dan_2008

Dan_2008 — Fri, 23 May 2008 23:10:20 +0000

I can’t install it at all. In fact, I’ve had a lot of problems installing Linux distros on Virtual PC. I’m running an AMD Athlon x2 and suspect it’s part of the problem.

With Ubuntu I almost gave up but I found a little trick that works with VPC 2007 SP1. I’ll share it with you: if you set “hardware assistance” off in the virtual machine parameters, Ubuntu works… perfectly! If you put the switch back on, Ubuntu works… whenever it’s in a good mood…

Unfortunately, no such luck with Open Suse. The virtual machine just behaves erratically. Sometimes it starts installing, other times not… I’ve tried all sorts of boot switches, but none do the trick. Might try Virtual box as suggested above, but I really need this to work in VPC.

By: Glen

Glen — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:10:48 +0000

I know this is a bit off topic, but I couldn’t get openSUSE 10.3 to work with VPC 2007 no matter what I did. As soon as I selected installation from the boot screen, the display would go black and the HD would grind for about 10 minutes and then nothing. I tried all the options mentioned here and several other for about half a day before I finally gave up.

Finally I did a search and installed VirtualBox and it just worked. It was able to setup the standard x86 distro in a VM with very little effort on my part, which was refreshing after toying with VPC for so long. So, if you’re like me and there’s something about your configuration that just won’t work with VPC 2007, try VirtualBox and save yourself a few headaches.

BTW – I still use VPC 2007 for all my Windows VMs, and it works great for that.

– Glen

By: cryomice

cryomice — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:09:05 +0000

Earl: you can find VMAdditions for Linux on the Microsoft site. Sorry if late )

NetGuyDave: Just mount image with VMAditions for Linux, then follow the readme

PS. Damn i should read comments in other order.. )

By: FrmrMsftLifer

FrmrMsftLifer — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:00:29 +0000

A couple of observations:
1. Thx for the mouse fix; made the install process much simpler.
2. When you set up your vpc hdd, select the option for fixed disk. If you use the dynamic option, vpc has to expand the disk each time the installer needs more space, which is practically every file. This slows the install significantly. ( I just did the install twice in under 30 minutes in vpc 2007 on Vista Ultimate 64, mind you I’m using a Lenovo S10 x64 with 4GB and a 15K SAS drive ).
3. If you want to see what’s happening, just flip to the details tab. The slide show is a snoozer anywho, so you might as well watch the 907 packages install.

By: NetGuyDave

NetGuyDave — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:27:43 +0000

I have 32 minutes of experience with Linux under my belt now and I can’t for the life of me figure out how to install Virtual Machine Additions for Linux onto my new load of OpenSuse 10.2 which is being hosted on a MS Virtual Server R2 SP1. I know how to load VMAs on other guests but I guess Linux is different. I’ve tried to have the VS load it, no go. I’ve downloaded the MSI to Linux but Linux won’t run it. I hope someone can answer such a stupid/simple question. Thank You, Dave

By: Dimce Ivanoski

Dimce Ivanoski — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:47:28 +0000

The installation went fine, but I can’t install aditions.
I have tried with wine but aditions are still not implemented. So any sugestions about this.

By: Dimce Ivanoski

Dimce Ivanoski — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:38:17 +0000

I have a questiong regarding installing openSuSE 10.3 on VPC 2007. I will make it simple: the installing process is very very slow, over 5 hours and it is on 50 % time. Is this process normal or I have made something wrong.

By: Earl

Earl — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:05:27 +0000

Hey Crabman,

How did you install the additions for linux? Where did you find them etc?

By: crabman

crabman — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:34:16 +0000

Never mind finally got the syntax correct. I also did install the additions for linux. Sweeeeet.

By: crabman

crabman — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:58:16 +0000

I have added the i8042.noloop comment to the menu.lst file but still no mouse. I am unclear on whether I have to install the ms additions or not? Anyone no for sure if they are needed for the mouse or if they are even available for opensuse 10.3? Thanks.

By: bummer

bummer — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:24:23 +0000

“It’s quite easy actually. Start the OS with option 3 in the option line.
Once in the shell prompt, type the sax2 -m 0=vesa command.
After a while, a window will pop up asking you save settings. Do that and restart. And viola!”

Had the same set of problems with mouse and display, your solution worked fine, except that I’m not sure I understood right what option 3 is… I booted from HDD while using “Text Mode” (F3 menu on the bootup screen). This didn’t work quite well. The bottom half of the screen was screwed with colored trash pixels, but there was console behind it. So I logged in blind and typed this command with sax2. It fixed resolution configuration and offered to save configuration. After I rebooted VM, it came out fine.

Thanks for help!

By: Kamar Khan

Kamar Khan — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:39:32 +0000

Guys leave it. Wait till suse next version. Or use suse 10.0 this things wont work. Virtual pc 2007 sucks.

By: Le Quang Nhat Anh

Le Quang Nhat Anh — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:34:46 +0000

Anyone gots problem installing OpenSUSE 10.3 in VPC 2007. When I finished the installation, I started the OpenSUSE and got an error ” Can’t not load X graphical Interface” or something like that, I can’t remember exactly. So is there any solutions for this error? Hope to get the answer soon. Thanks a lot