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I use a Windows 7 notebook at work but, sometimes, it’s just easier to drop back into a Unix or Linux machine – for example when I was checking out command line Twitter clients a few days ago (yes, there is\u00a0a\u00a0Windows one<\/a>, but Twidge<\/a> is more functional).\u00a0 After all, as one of my friends at Microsoft reminds me, it is just an operating system after all…<\/p>\n

Anyway, I wanted to install Ubuntu 10.4 in a virtual machine and, as I have Windows Virtual PC installed on my notebook, I didn’t want to use another virtual machine manager (most of the advice on the subject seems to\u00a0suggest using Virtual Box or VMware Workstation, which is a workaround – not a solution).\u00a0 My first attempts were unsuccessful but then I stumbled upon\u00a0a forum thread that helped me considerably<\/a> – thanks to MrDerekBush and pessimism on the Ubuntu forums – this is what I found I needed to do:<\/p>\n

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  1. Create a virtual machine in Windows Virtual PC as normal – it’s fine to use a dynamic disk – and boot from an Ubuntu disk image (i.e. an ISO, or physical media).<\/li>\n
  2. At the language selection screen, hit Escape<\/code>, then F6<\/code> and bring up the boot options string.\u00a0 Delete the part that says quiet splash --<\/code> and replace it with vga=788 noreplace-paravirt<\/code> (other vga boot codes<\/a>\u00a0may work too).<\/li>\n
  3. Select the option to try Ubuntu without installing then, once the desktop environment is fully loaded, select the option to install Ubuntu and follow the prompts.<\/li>\n
  4. At the end of the installation, do not restart the virtual machine – there are some changes required to the boot loader (and Ubuntu 10.4 uses GRUB2<\/a>, so some of the advice on the ‘net does not apply).<\/li>\n
  5. From Places, double click the icon that represents the virtual hard disk (probably something like 135GB file system if you have a default sized virtual hard disk). Then, open a Terminal session\u00a0and type mount<\/code>, to get the volume identifier.<\/li>\n
  6. Enter the following commands:
    \nsudo mount -o bind \/dev \/media\/volumeidentifier<\/em>\/dev
    \nsudo chroot \/media\/volumeidentifier<\/em>\/ \/bin\/bash
    \nmount -t proc none \/proc
    \nnano \/etc\/default\/grub<\/code><\/li>\n
  7. Replace quiet splash<\/code> with vga=788<\/code> and comment out the grub_hidden_timeout<\/code> line (using #<\/code>)\u00a0in \/etc\/default\/grub, then save the file and exit nano.<\/li>\n
  8. Enter the following command:
    \nnano \/etc\/grub.d\/10_linux<\/code><\/li>\n
  9. In the linux_entry<\/code> section, change args=\"$4\"<\/code> to args=\"$4 noreplace-paravirt\"<\/code>, then save the file and exit nano.<\/li>\n
  10. Enter the update-grub<\/code> command and ignore any error messages about not being able to find the list of partitions.<\/li>\n
  11. Shut down the virtual machine.\u00a0 At this point I was left with a message about Casper resyncing snapshots and, ever after leaving the VM for a considerable period it did not progress further.\u00a0 I hibernated the VM and when I resumed it, it rebooted and Ubuntu loaded as normal.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    There are still a few things I need to sort out: there are no Virtual Machine Additions for Linux on Virtual PC (only for Hyper-V), which means no mouse\/keyboard integration; and the Ctrl-Alt-left arrow release key combination clashes with the defaults for Intel graphics card drivers<\/a>\u00a0(there are some useful Virtual PC keyboard shortcuts<\/a>).\u00a0 Even so, getting the OS up and running is a start!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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