nkelly
November 19th, 2009, 12:43 PM
Hi,
I am trying to get Ubuntu 9.1 32-bit to run in a virtual machine on x64 Windows 7 Enterprise (RTM, fully patched).
The installer runs through fine (with noreplace-paravirt) however upon booting the VM I receive Segmentation Fault errors. Booting from the live CD will run the operating system so I know it is possible to have it running in Virtual PC.
I have read through various web boards and forum posts, tried all the suggestions however the machine won't boot.
The information I have read (Limited on the web) regarding the segmentation fault error suggests it relates to a memory addressing issue.
I have noticed that the image that is trying to boot has -pae on the end of it.
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic-pae
My machine currently has 2GB of RAM. Correct me if I am wrong (I come from a windows world) but Physical Address Extension was designed to over come the physical 4GB RAM limit with 32-bit computing, allow a 32-bit operating system to address more than 4GB of RAM.
I really would like to get this up and running using Virtual PC (Not interested in the other "Fantastic Packages" I can use to have the OS booting virtually in Windows 7). I am a fan of VMWare and have been a virtualisation consultant in the server arena for several years now.
Any assistance anyone can offer will be greatly appreciated. Once I iron out all the kinks in the installation procedure I will write a fully featured how-to installation guide as a gift to community.
Regards,
Noel
I am trying to get Ubuntu 9.1 32-bit to run in a virtual machine on x64 Windows 7 Enterprise (RTM, fully patched).
The installer runs through fine (with noreplace-paravirt) however upon booting the VM I receive Segmentation Fault errors. Booting from the live CD will run the operating system so I know it is possible to have it running in Virtual PC.
I have read through various web boards and forum posts, tried all the suggestions however the machine won't boot.
The information I have read (Limited on the web) regarding the segmentation fault error suggests it relates to a memory addressing issue.
I have noticed that the image that is trying to boot has -pae on the end of it.
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic-pae
My machine currently has 2GB of RAM. Correct me if I am wrong (I come from a windows world) but Physical Address Extension was designed to over come the physical 4GB RAM limit with 32-bit computing, allow a 32-bit operating system to address more than 4GB of RAM.
I really would like to get this up and running using Virtual PC (Not interested in the other "Fantastic Packages" I can use to have the OS booting virtually in Windows 7). I am a fan of VMWare and have been a virtualisation consultant in the server arena for several years now.
Any assistance anyone can offer will be greatly appreciated. Once I iron out all the kinks in the installation procedure I will write a fully featured how-to installation guide as a gift to community.
Regards,
Noel