# Sunday, 12 August 2007
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VM Additions

To install Virtual Machine Additions for Linux (openSUSE 10.2) running under Virtual PC 2007 download the vm additions for Virual Server from Microsoft Cconnect.

Grab iso image and boot into Linux.
su
cd /media/CDROM
rpm -ivh vmadd-full-0.0.1-1.i386.rpm --force

Then

Backup old mouse_drv.so in /usr.lib/xorg/modules/input
and replace with new mouse driver from /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input

ctrl-alt-backspace  (init 3, init 5 )

Finally, disable scsi additions (YaST -> System -> System Services (Runlevel) disable rl 3 & 5

Mouse Wheel

add psmouse.proto=imps to /boot/grub/menu.lst (or =exps)

Screen Size

Seems to be limited to 1024x768

Keyboard Repeat

Add clock=pit as a bootloader option

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