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Mandriva 2006 on Microsoft Virtual Machine PC 2004

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Wed, 05/04/2006 - 7:17pm — ikhnaton2

Hello All,

I'm installing Mandriva 2006 on Microsoft Virtual Machine PC 2004 for testing purposes. The installation goes fine and it works. I choose IceWM windows manager for its lightweight.

Manily, I have 2 problems now:

  1. The resolution of the guest OS (Mandriva) is 800*600 while VM screen width is 640*480 and I've to move the mouse to the left and right to see the rest of cutten screen. So, I need to change the VM display screen to be 800*600 or make the guest OS change it automatically. How-To?
  2. I want to transfer files from the guest and host OSs. How-To?

I know MS VM 2004 is little stupid than VMware but I have to stick with it for licenses issues.

Peace, Rami Sedhom

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It had been solved.

ikhnaton2 - 06/04/2006 - 1:17am

It had been solved.

  1. Reinstalling Mandriva with minimal KDE
  2. Using Samba

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Sliming down the guest OS

ikhnaton2 - 06/04/2006 - 2:38am

Now it's very heavy on the host machine. Memory allocated 256MB and it's almost used if few applications is opened. I should slim down the guest OS (Mandriva 2006). Any advices?!!!

Must exist services:

  1. Apapche
  2. MySQL
  3. Samba

Applications expected to be run:

  1. 2-3 console interfaces
  2. Browser

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