[AccessD] Sun Virtual PC

I decided to check this stuff out and have just downloaded it and am about
to install. My native OS is Vista with SP1. I'd like to be able to create an
XP and a Linux box minimum, and perhaps a Geos one as well.

Anything I should know before diving in?

Thanks,
Arthur

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Steve Erbach <erbachs at gmail.com> wrote:

> Max,
>
> I've got the Sun VirtualBox stuff, too, to run Ubuntu as a virtual
> machine.  To install it I downloaded the Ubuntu package as an ISO
> file.  Thus I could attach to that file as a virtual CD drive to
> install Ubuntu on the virtual pc.  Worked flawlessly.  I haven't been
> able to figure out yet how to get more than 800x600 resolution, but
> that's small change that I can no doubt figure out when I have an
> extra afternoon sometime.
>
> Is this what you're trying to do?  Install an operating system on your
> virtual pc?
>
> Steve Erbach
> Neenah, WI
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Max Wanadoo <max.wanadoo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Stu,
> > Hope you are well.
> > I installed the sun VP but when I run it it opens the window, gives some
> > info about the Host Key which I then close.  It then displays a black
> > command type window with the message "FATAL: No bootable mediaum found!
> > System Halted.
> >
> > I have rebooted my PC which is stripped naked.  Brand new installation of
> > XP.  Then AVG anti virus  followed by Office 2003 - all updated with
> latest
> > updates.  Then web dev express form MS downloaded and installed - all ok
> > except for the light thingy.  Then installed Firefox 3.  Then Sun VP.  So
> as
> > you can see, not much to go wrong.
> >
> > Any ideas?
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