Installing FC2 in VirtualPC for Mac

[eyz]

My only PC had a major hard drive failure. I can't wait to test FC2, so I decide to try it out in VirtualPC on my Powerbook.

The 12' G4 Powerbook comes with a NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200. VirtualPC version is 6.1.1. I once successfully installed FC1 on it. However, FC2 can't get into X. Whenever the installer tries to launch X, everything goes black. I did notice from the console that it loaded a generic S3 Trio64 driver.

I guess there won't be many doing what I'm doing. So the question is whether I can load the proper video driver instead of letting the installer probe a wrong one. If yes, which driver should I pick and how do I do this? Thanks!!!

[bmyers]

> whether I can load the proper video driver

In this case S3 Trio64 driver *is* the proper video driver. VPC does not expose inside the VM whatever video hardware your computer actually has. It always emulates an S3. If you look at your successfully installed Core 1 virtual machine, you'll see it's using the S3 there too.

Like you, I was able to install core 1 on Virtual PC (not on a mac though) and am unable to install core 2. I've posted a message here detailing the specific error I saw but haven't heard anything back yet.

Brian