Redhat on Virtual PC/Virtual Server
I'm not known for my deep technical skills and posts on Redhat/Linux, but I was working on something and thought I should provide a post.
On a project that we're doing some Proof of Concepting on, we are going to migrate content from a Non-Windows environment (in this case RedHat/Linux) to a Windows 2003 environment. This is only part of the project, but an important one. So I thought I'd use Virtual Server to host my Redhat installation. I know it's not supported, but I had to try anyways. Well the entire installation went pretty well. I followed the GUI based installation provided by RedHat 9.0 and everything worked well. Now for the bad part.
After the Virtual Machine rebooted after the installation, I could see the boot up process that is typical in Linux, but at the end of it I got a weird display. At this point, I got a "Black Screen" with some weird "haze" that appeared to be a hard to see version of the UI. I could see my mouse cursor moving around and could even make out a few icons. But it was so hard to see and I couldn't read anything! So reinstalled it and thought perhaps I chose the wrong device driver. Nope, that wasn't it either.
The solution was VERY simple. I found out that in order for this to work, you needed to set the Display to 16-bit in order for the display to "work." Once that was done, all was good. It's weird that I didn't find more information on this on the web. Perhaps I just didn't read the documentation correctly, I'm doing the wrong searches via Google/MSN, not many people are installing Redhat on Virtual Server/PC, or something else.
Here are some sites that helped me out: