Downloaded Ubuntu 6.06.1 from http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/ubuntu-releases/dapper/ubuntu-6.06.1-desktop-i386.iso This is called "The Dapper Drake". Downloaded the md5 sum from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuHashes. The hash is fb3af44c21f1f68cc25fda7edb8c1bd3 Verified ISO integrity. Created a VPC07 dynamically sized disk "Ubuntu 6.06.1 VHD". Created a VPC07 virtual machine "Ubuntu 6.06.1 TEMP" with 1024mb ram and NAT networking. Booted the machine with the ubuntu-6.06.1-desktop-i386.iso in Safe Graphics Mode. The standard mode graphics fail. Booting this installer/live-cd is pretty slow. Searched for and found (and will use) the following reference page: http://arcanecode.wordpress.com/2006/12/19/installing-ubuntu-on-virtualpc-step-by-step/ to increase chances of getting it right the first time. Choose install and specify the configuration: English, USA/Chicago time, American Keyboard, my user/machine info, use the entire disk, the installation now begins. I let the installer run and did other things. It is really something what you get "for free" these days. Installation completed and got a popup message to reboot, at which point the machine locked up. Turned off the machine so the changes would be saved. Booted. Logged in. Updted are available. Apparenty the user I created is admin. Installed all of the updates, 186 of them. Both download and installation took some time. Rebooted to make sure things work. With the updates installed, I'm going to freeze this disk as a change disk, set it to read only. Created a differencing disk "Ubuntu 6.06.1 DEV VHD" and pointed the virtual machine to this disk. Installed the toolchain using the command "sudo apt-get install gcc build-essential". Verified that it works, it is gcc version 4.0.3. Went ahead with the same procedure setting this image as read only and then setting up another image for doing the build. Created another disk image to act as a shared drive as a way to get files off of the machine. Booted linux and verified that the shared image shows up. Mounted the drive with this line in the fstab: /dev/hdb1 /fat_files vfat iocharset=utf8,umask=000 0 0 Ran "apt-get install subversion" to get a subversion v1.3.1 client. Configure failed because it couldn't find the X11 development files. Ran "apt-get install xorg-dev" to get them.