Comments on: Installing Ubuntu 8.04 Beta under Virtual PC 2007

By: ch00k

ch00k — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 07:44:48 +0000

You little beauty _Thanks_
It works for Ubuntu v10 on Microsoft Virtual PC 2007

Press F4 during Booting of Ubuntu
Select F6
type “vga=791″ without the “

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:51:37 +0000

Ooops, typed too fast.

After you boot the second time into the LiveCD, and open the terminal window, here’s what you need to do to mount the VHD.

Start Terminal Window

>sudo su –

>mkdir /mnt/hdd

>mnt /dev/sda1 /mnt/hdd

>vi /mnt/hdd/etc/default/grub
add “noreplace-paravirt” inside the end quote (after “splash”) on the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT line

>shutdown -r now

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:48:52 +0000

TrY,

Here’s what I did to fix on Ubuntu 10.04

Stop the boot of the live CD by hitting ESC. Choose F6, hit ESC to hide the popup. Add vga=791 noreplace-paravirt before the existing — on the command string.

Boot to LiveCD desktop, select the install option.

Reboot into LiveCD again, stop the boot of the live CD, and do the F6, vga=791 noreplace-paravirt again.

Boot to LiveCD desktop

Start Terminal window

sudo su -

vi /etc/default/grub
add “noreplace-paravirt” inside the end quote (after “splash”) on the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT line

shutdown -r now

Can boot fine into the installed Ubuntu environment.

By: TrY

TrY — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:43:22 +0000

I trying Mandriva in Microsoft Virtual PC,
then error dialog come out “An unrecoverable processor error has been encountered. The virtual machine will reset now.”
there is no Safe Graphics Mode or F6,
how to solved it?????

By: reagleston

reagleston — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:47:08 +0000

Thanks for the config file. I’ve been working on the screen resolution for 2 days now. This does work. Just make sure you do EXACTLY what Pb says in his post. I kept screwing up because I pasted his xorg.conf into mine, but my vga parameter was set to vga=791 instead of vga=794.

Thanks again for the great post….

By: MargoW

MargoW — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:47:16 +0000

Finally, it works!:

F4 – Safe Graphics Mode
F6 – add “vga=791 noreplace-paravirt”

T60 VPC 2007 8.04 (9.04 crashed before install screen would load)

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By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 06:23:21 +0000

Excellent article about installation!!! Staying far away from Unix for about 8 yrs, I would not have installed it without the article.

I recently tried installing Ubuntu 8.10 alternate on MS VPC using the same instructions.. Everything is exactly the same excepting that the xorg.conf is not present in /etc/X11.

Any help on that would be greatly appreciated.

-Chris

By: Sharon

Sharon — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:36:15 +0000

I did everything step by step but finally I get ‘an unrecoverable processor error has been encountered.’ The virtual machine will reset now.’ error message. Please help. I read the comment to do f6 and f8 but it doesn’t take me there. HELP!

By: ASteele

ASteele — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:46:49 +0000

F6 – add “vga=791 noreplace-paravirt” worked for me as well, but max res of 800×600? bah… back to openSUSE

By: Michael DePhillips

Michael DePhillips — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:05:19 +0000

Thanks to all for instructions. I’ve succeeded, however, the instalation is very sluggish. I gave 1gb of RAM and i can out type it. Any experience in speeding things up. It’s almost unworkable as it stands.

Thanks,

By: eliz

eliz — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:54:06 +0000

It worked for me as for the previous user:
F4 – Safe Graphics Mode
F6 – noreplace-paravirt
I have XP (assume that it has SP3)

Thanks for the help, it saved my mental health.

By: Massanori

Massanori — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:25:08 +0000

Actually it worked for me only by using
F4 – Secure
F6 – “noreplace-paravirt”

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:36:33 +0000

F6 – add “vga=791 noreplace-paravirt”

worked for me…

By: Manmeet Singh

Manmeet Singh — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 06:26:17 +0000

Thanks

VPC 2007 with SP1
Problem:
“An unrecoverable processor error has been encountered.”
reset, loop forever.
Solution:
Following settings worked for me.
F4 – Safe Graphics Mode
F6 – add “vga=791 noreplace-paravirt”

worked for me as well

By: r0oL

r0oL — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:00:56 +0000

By: Tommy

Tommy — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:26:18 +0000

Never mind…. edited grub and got back in…

By: Tommy

Tommy — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:19:43 +0000

I had it working with the F4 / F6 trick but did some recommended updates and now it’s broke agin with the processor error issue. All it does is reboot, any suggestions on how to fix after updates?

By: DougNoTronik

DougNoTronik — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:36:42 +0000

Has anyone been experiencing performance issues with VPC 2007? I get occasional keypress repetitions and the mouse isn’t always smooth. I have 1 gig ram allocated to the vm (out of 2 total) and have tried running the vpc at max speed also. The ubuntu heron build uses an average of 50% cpu from my host. I may have to investigate tuning ubuntu for performance or using another vm.