Knoppix live CD not working in Virtual PC

[terapin]

Here is a screenshot of what it looks like

http://i.imgur.com/JXBYd.png

[Werner P. Schulz]

Have a look at Cheatcodes. First of all try the Cheatcode

knoppix testcd

[terapin]

without any boot commands, I get the menu come up but very fuzzy.

knoppix nodrm <-- that removes the fuzzyness and also the menu.
(ok no menu)

and then it goes to a shell for about 15 seconds and then the GUI loads up.

How do I stop the GUI loading up?

gui still comes up if I do vga=0

[klaus2008]

I used the cheat code 'nofb' when I tried to use Knoppix 7 in the Virtual PC.

knoppix nofb

Knoppix 7.0.0 from Linux Magazin (german) works. I had to issue

sudo modprobe snd-sb16

in a terminal in order to get sound.

Since Knoppix V 7.0.1 the network does not work anymore.

Since Knoppix V 7.0.3 the virtual hard disk is not found anymore.

@terapin:
I would suggest that you try another virtual machine like VMware or VirtualBox if your CPU supports virtualization technology. There is also QEMU for windows.

If you only want to boot into text mode (shell, runlevel 2) you could issue

knoppix nodrm 2

But if you need WLAN you have to find a way to configure it via the command line.

[terapin]

knoppix nofb nodrm 2 <-- boots into the shell and stays there(which is an improvement over the fuzzy gui). But it seems I get no Internet access.

When I try sudo apt-get update, it says things like
W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/updat.......
Temporary failure resolving 'security.debian.org'.

I am not using WLAN, just LAN(Wired). But it seems I don't have access to that, when within Virtual PC.

[Capricorny]

I have no problems running a Poor Man's Install of Knoppix 7.0.5 in qemu-kvm, booting with legacy grub from the drive I am actually running from (/dev/sda), but using another, unmounted partition (/dev/sda3, the running Knoppix instance is on /dev/sda1)

Using the command line

sudo qemu -machine accel=kvm  -hda /dev/sda  -m 1024 &

and then choosing the boot alternative on /dev/sda3. Network, mounting etc works.