[Evil_Neko]

I have Virtual PC 2004

It works fine for installing microsoft OSs but I can't install linux. I have only tried fedora core 2 so far as it is the only one I have a disk for.

which, if any, linux distros are supported on it. and are there any ways of getting round this problem.

 

[Kirby]

Microsoft tries as much as possible to break Linux support in VPC

if you really perfer VPC over VMWare, there are some ways:

http://www.computerbits.com/archive/2004/0600/virtuallinux.html

 

[Snake785]

uhh...I have no problems with Linux in VPC and I've used Gentoo, RH, SuSe 9, and some other distros. Only thing I haven't gotten to work was sound because I don't know how to set up an ISA soundcard (since VPC emulates a SB16 PnP ISA card)

[edit]: onlyissue I had actually was when starting X and it being set to 24-bit colour, it will show a messed up display. To fix, you'd have to boot up in text mode, edit the /etc/X11/XfreeConfig-4 file (or something like that, can't remember the name of the config file), and you find a line that pertains to the color depth, then you change it from 24 to 16 or 32, then it should work again.