> I'm running VS R2 on a Win 64 bit OS (XP), running as guest os include 32 bit
> , win 2003, vista, and I installed Linux, everything went fine with all guest
> installations, except when I installed the Linux as guest, the video card on
> the "guest" is confused and any graphical display is all "messed up".
> When I called Linux support, they said to ask Microsoft what "generic" video
> card the Host will ask the guest to support and then we can set that in the
> guest OS. I don't see any such setup in any of the guest setup. Does does
> the guest automatically see what the video card on the host is and emulate
> that? If yes, should I try to get a 32 bit linux copy of video driver that
> was installed on the host and install that on Linux guest?
>
> Also I see on the the Window guest (Vista for example) if you set the guest
> resolution to 1280 by 1024 it will automaticly set the color to 15 from 32,
> why is that?
>
> Thanks for any sugguestion
>
>

> Which install of Linux are you using? I've been able to get Fedora and
> Mandrake working on VS-r2 just fine.
>
> Mandrake seems to work better though since you have the ability to "test"
> the video driver before comitting to it during the install. The worst is
> setting the display adaptor then finding out upon reboot that its wrong.
> Changing it to a working one can be somewhat cumbersome...
>
>
>
> "Peter W." wrote:
>
> > I'm running VS R2 on a Win 64 bit OS (XP), running as guest os include 32 bit
> > , win 2003, vista, and I installed Linux, everything went fine with all guest
> > installations, except when I installed the Linux as guest, the video card on
> > the "guest" is confused and any graphical display is all "messed up".
> > When I called Linux support, they said to ask Microsoft what "generic" video
> > card the Host will ask the guest to support and then we can set that in the
> > guest OS. I don't see any such setup in any of the guest setup. Does does
> > the guest automatically see what the video card on the host is and emulate
> > that? If yes, should I try to get a 32 bit linux copy of video driver that
> > was installed on the host and install that on Linux guest?
> >
> > Also I see on the the Window guest (Vista for example) if you set the guest
> > resolution to 1280 by 1024 it will automaticly set the color to 15 from 32,
> > why is that?
> >
> > Thanks for any sugguestion
> >
> >

>I'm running VS R2 on a Win 64 bit OS (XP), running as guest os include 32 bit
>, win 2003, vista, and I installed Linux, everything went fine with all guest
>installations, except when I installed the Linux as guest, the video card on
>the "guest" is confused and any graphical display is all "messed up".
>When I called Linux support, they said to ask Microsoft what "generic" video
>card the Host will ask the guest to support and then we can set that in the
>guest OS. I don't see any such setup in any of the guest setup. Does does
>the guest automatically see what the video card on the host is and emulate
>that? If yes, should I try to get a 32 bit linux copy of video driver that
>was installed on the host and install that on Linux guest?
>
>Also I see on the the Window guest (Vista for example) if you set the guest
>resolution to 1280 by 1024 it will automaticly set the color to 15 from 32,
>why is that?
>
>Thanks for any sugguestion
>

> On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:38:27 -0800, "Peter W." <Peter
> (email address - cut out)> wrote:
>
> >I'm running VS R2 on a Win 64 bit OS (XP), running as guest os include 32 bit
> >, win 2003, vista, and I installed Linux, everything went fine with all guest
> >installations, except when I installed the Linux as guest, the video card on
> >the "guest" is confused and any graphical display is all "messed up".
> >When I called Linux support, they said to ask Microsoft what "generic" video
> >card the Host will ask the guest to support and then we can set that in the
> >guest OS. I don't see any such setup in any of the guest setup. Does does
> >the guest automatically see what the video card on the host is and emulate
> >that? If yes, should I try to get a 32 bit linux copy of video driver that
> >was installed on the host and install that on Linux guest?
> >
> >Also I see on the the Window guest (Vista for example) if you set the guest
> >resolution to 1280 by 1024 it will automaticly set the color to 15 from 32,
> >why is that?
> >
> >Thanks for any sugguestion
> >
>
> You need to make sure that Linux is not using 15 or 24bit color,
> neither of which is supported under VS.
>
> For a video card, you can use generic VESA or the S3 Trio 64 (the
> actual card emulated). Generally, using VESA will allow you to
> achieve higher resolutions.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
> http://vpc.essjae.com/
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>