Virtual PC running Linux-RedHat and Windows 2003

This might be an old subject, but does anybody know if we
can run Linux Red-Hat (7.2) and windows 2003 on the same
machine running virtual PC? Any issues???
Thanks....
Bahman J.

 

Actually more genereic question is "can we run linux and
windows on virtual PC"...

 

You can run as many guests as you have disk space and RAM for, up to
the theoretical limit of 32.

so the generic answer is yes, you can run RH7.2 and W2K3 VMs on a
Windows PC running VPC.

 

If it's any help, I've got two (slightly different)
installations of Red Hat 9.0 and one of Windows Longhorn
running side by side on a Windows XP Pro box. It all
works very nicely.

 

Yes you can. I currently have RH 6.2, Slackware 9, Openbsd
3.3, Freebsd 4.9 and a small host of MSDN OS's (Win98-
2003) in Virtual PC. On your Red Hat system I would
recommend two items:

1) Configure and run ntp, xntpd, or time (via inetd) time
sync. If you choose time from inetd use WinXP simple TCP
services on XP to provide the time source.
2) Consider running the virtual machine in VPC but access
it via cywin/x or putty (ssh) with Winscp or Filezilla for
file transfers. This will permit partial clipboard support
("xwin -clipboard -query %rh_ip% -from %my_ip%" works best
for me, xwinclip does not seem to work as well. Also note
that using -from 127.0.0.1 does not work as expected
either).

And for Extra_Points() consider using nomachine (
http://www.nomachine.com ) for better sound and clipboard
integration. Don't forget those extra fonts!


HTH,

Sam Stern
Baltimore, MD, USA

 

Big issue with the file system, if you use ext2 (and
ext3). It pretty much will defeat much of the purpose of
an expanding VHD, as it looks like it totally expands
when formatting. May want to use a fixed size VHD.
Still investigating. Note: I have a RedHat 8.0
partition, saved with Ghost, from a production machine.
I'm trying to get it to run in a VM. Still no luck due
to /etc/fstab, /boot/grub/grub.conf, etc because my
partitions have all changed. Any one can help?

 

where do you get a copy of Longhorn?

 

microsoft.public.virtualpc news group,

It was given out at the PDC, and is available to MSDN subscribers. It is
not available to the general public.