Linux X-Windows cannot display properly on virtual machine

When you try to install Suse Linux or Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Microsoft virtualization environment (Virtual PC 2007, Virtual Server 2005 R2, or Hyper-V), you might not be able to boot into run-level 5 or execute the X-Windows even you already appllied the virtual machine addition for linux on those system.

Here, we would like to share out some tips for you to encounter this issue:

• Suse Linux

1. Start your Suse in run-level 3.
   
2. Type "sax2 -r" command when the system is startup.
3. After that a screen resolution test will launch, click "OK" to accept the new sax configuration.
4. Then, start your X-Windows system.
   

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (or Fedora Core)

1. During the operating system installation, select "Thousand of Colors" for your screen resolution instead of "Million of Colors".
   

Hope this post is helpful. :)