I've been trying for about a week to get Gentoo Linux to work with Microsoft Virtual PC 2004. For some reason, it doesn't see the floppy drive, and no matter how many hard drives I create, Gentoo only sees one of them. Has anyone here been able to load a Gentoo guest on it?
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i too vote for colinux, it runs very reliably, can run as a service so it runs when machine is turned on and stops when it is powered down, hibernation should work (didnt test it this time, worked last time), sleep? not sure
you can use any X-server, this time i am using x-deep32, works great, is freeware, does all i want nicely
last time i used a full cygwin (also for other things) amd utilized the cygwin/X that came with it (xfree4.3.0 at the time).
check on colinux wiki where most thins really are documented, there are a couple prepackaged X server implementations, some being cygwin/X w/o the rest (~20MB only iirc)
you could use their configs with your existing cygwin im sure
im currently using colinux to help the mac mini compile using distcc on the ~x86 XP3200 to compile for the ~ppc G4 mac mini, which works quite nicely
basically im saying dont let the IT department tell you what works best, vmware and virtual PC are sluggish compared to colinux, they are huge if you dont need a GUI al the time and prefer to only some of the daemons in linux to say, test things on an apache server
at least get them to allow you a full out test, aside from microsoft not supporting linux as OS last time i looked at VPC, leaving only vmware as choice if they really have a problem with >=colinux-0.7.1
btw, you could even setup a dualboot environment, and then boot linux off the real physical disk with colinux in XP when you can't afford to shutdown/need both at the same time, while booting linux when you do want linux natively
all that at the most attractive pricetag of them all :)
hope any of this helps
Daniel
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