Ubuntu 9.10 works under Windows VPC (Sort of)
Posted by essjae on November 6, 2009
Thanks to Matthew Guay, Ubuntu 9.10 was found to work under WinVPC http://www.flickr.com/photos/42564061@N06/4059419695/.
More OSes that work in WinVPC: http://www.essjae.com/virtualization/wwadw.htm
Edit: I haven’t had any success in getting this to work yet 😦
Edit2: I was able to get Ubuntu 9.10 to boot by using the old VPC2007/Ubuntu 9.04 trick:
On the first screen, choose [English].
Press [F4] and select [Safe Graphics].
Press [F6], press [Escape]. This will reveal the command line. Remove “quiet splash –“replace “vga=791 noreplace-paravirt” without the quotes.
Press [Enter] to start the installation.
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Mark McGinty said
Awesome dude, thanks!
NeAmico said
Works for Ubuntu 11.4 with some grub changes
Do the F4 trick with boot CD and run Ubuntu. Then install the os. Do not reboot afterwards. Mount virtual hdd and run terminal with the following:
sudo mount -o bind /dev /media//dev
sudo chroot /media// /bin/bash
mount -t proc none /proc
nano /etc/default/grub
Then in the nano editor, replace “quiet splash” with “vga=788 noreplace-paravirt”, remove GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT line, save and exit. Use update-grub at the shell prompt then type: sync; exit; exit