Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 support Ubuntu?

Here is what I did.

Windows XP, Solaris 10 (Unix) and Ubuntu 6.10 (Linux) Multiple Boot!

I just was looking for some alternate operating systems to use besides Windows XP and came across Solaris 10 (Unix) and Ubuntu 6.10 (Linux), both free. I decided that I wanted to create partitions on my hard drive for all three and be able to boot any that I wanted to. I had trouble at first because I could only have either Solaris 10 or Ubuntu 6.10 with Windows XP, not all three because of the conflicting grub boot programs of Solaris 10 and Ubuntu 6.10. After some testing I got it to work. I got Windows XP Media Center version 2005 with update rollup 2, Solaris 10, and Ubuntu 6.10 all able to boot. Here is what I did. First I have a 500gb Western Digital hard drive so this is great for the above. Anyways I first installed Windows XP Media Center version 2005. I formatted and partitioned the hard drive to about 419993 NTFS 4kb with Data Lifeguard Tools 11.2 which came with my drive. I use this because it is super fast. It is probably possible to download from the western digital website for free and use it with a non western digital drive. Because my drive is so big it takes XP a super long time to format it. That is why I use the Data Lifeguard Tools. After installing XP and whatever necessary to install it, next for Ubuntu 6.10. I use the ubuntu-6.10-desktop-i386.iso on cd. Boot up with it. I have to enter special commands on the boot up screen because my custom computer needs it. To do this I have to press F6 right away and the end of the command sentence type noapic nolapic. Press enter and I get to the try out first desktop. I double clicked install went through the prompts, strange the pacific time is off, and when I got to the partition part I choose to manually edit partitions. Next I clicked on the unallocated space and clicked on the new partition button. I chose around 40gb first primary partition kept it ext3. You need to make a second partition because it says it needs one for swap. I made that 300mb primary partition ext3 as it says it needs to be at least 256mb. I finalized this and got the screen where you choose mounts. / is the 40gb one, swap is 300mb. Finalized this and here is the critical part you see a screen that shows what is going to happen and you see something that says grub hd0. I changed that to hd0,1. This will prevent Solaris 10 from conflicting with Ubuntu grub and you won't get a message saying linux fdisk is in the way. Finalized and it installed. After restart, you should not be able to boot ubuntu it should directly go back to windows. That is what happened for me. Put in Solaris 10 cd and boot from it chose solaris, solaris interactive, default video display press enter. (Make sure to pay attention to installation otherwise at least for me it won't install correctly) Go through the prompts when you get to the part where it says default no/yes I chose no and I allocated rest of hard drive for solaris 10. Modify the mounts I chose 300 for swap and 100 for the /export/home thing and the rest for /. Finalized this and it installs. Make sure to pay attention to the installation prompts. Finished installing rebooted and it opened the optical drive I took out disc closed the drive and waited for it to boot up the login screen. You might expect to see at boot screen for all the OS to show up but you just see solaris and windows. I had to enter something in the solaris 10 grub menu to enable to see Ubuntu boot. Anyways, next I needed to type in root as username (that is what it said to do in help), then my chosen password. Note that when you type the password it will not show anything but blank just type and enter. I choose the java desktop next wait for the registration screen click later and next. Clicked on this computer and file system, boot, grub, menu.1st. At the bottom I typed

title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.17-10-generic
      root (hd0,1)
      chainloader +1

Saved the file and restarted the computer. When I got to the boot screen for the OS I see a new selection for Ubuntu, kernel 2.5.17-10-generic. Selected that and it took me to the Ubuntu grub menu with windows! So that is how I got all three operating systems, Windows XP, Solaris 10, and Ubuntu 6.10 installed and able to choose which one to boot. I also tested to see if the other OS would still select and yes it worked. Hope this helps for anybody that wants the a windows os, a linux os and a unix os on one hard drive!