Virtual PC 2007 and Fedora 9 - With a little work, they can be friends... - Greg's Cool [Insert Clever Name] of the Day

Monday, May 19, 2008

Virtual PC 2007 and Fedora 9 - With a little work, they can be friends...

The Sean Blog - Installing Fedora 9 (Sulphur) in Virtual PC 2007

"Fedora 9 was released last week, which you can download here: http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora.html. What's new? Highlights from the release notes include:

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Will this be the installation that "Just Works" out of the box? Nope. Same problem that Ubuntu 8.04 has within Virtual PC... "An unrecoverable processor error has been encountered. The virtual machine will reset now." Good times!

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Fortunately, from our work with Ubuntu, we know the solution. On the main boot screen, hit [Tab] to edit the options. Add noreplace-paravirt to the end of the boot parameters, and hit enter.

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There we go... Fedora is able to boot the kernel and start up anaconda. The problems I noted in my previous Fedora Posts (Fedora Core 6, Fedora 7, and Fedora 8) of no mouse and messed up graphics seems to have been fixed. Very Nice!

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One final reminder... to make sure that you do not have to enter the noreplace-paravirt each time you boot up, go edit your /etc/grub.conf file to add that parameter at the end of the line that looks something like kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25.3-18.fc9.i686 ro root=dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet. If you ever update your kernel, you'll have to do it again. Oh well... maybe Fedora 10 will fix this issue. I'll keep my fingers crossed..."