Once again like using windows under Parallels if you live in the UK you will need to set the keyboard to an American layout to better match that of the mac.

Great for convincing linux buffs that you just splashed out on a mac only to rip out OSX and run Ubuntu! Improving the keyboard mappings with xmodmap If you like the full screen mode then feel free to set the resolution to match your mac and the you can set the VM to always use full-screen mode when you launch. Thus it would appear that for now that you will only be able to achieve the maximum resolution that you make available from the configuration tool. In trying to change the resolution down to 1280x800 which is more ideal for use of the VM in a window I found that every time the OS reverted to the 1440x900 resolution. I added both 1440x9x800 but once I had restarted the X server, Ctrl+Alt+backspace the Ubuntu VM jumped straight to the 1440x900 resolution. In the next step I was able to choose the resolutions that I wanted. When going through the options I selected the default 'vesa' driver (I wouldn't recommend deviating from this). This runs the command line configuration tool for xorg. So I ran sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg from the ubuntu terminal. # sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg Then when I was double checking my edits to the nf file I noticed this note: # If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated The available resolutions do not change from what had existed before. So to remedy this I though I should be able to simply edit the nf file found at /etc/X11/nf, however doing this did not work at all.

Now the one thing that I found a little annoying with the newly installed ubuntu is that it defaults to a maximum resolution of 1024x768 which hardly makes best use of the full resolution of the MacBook Pro or indeed the larger resolution of your MacBook etc. Once complete shutdown Ubuntu, stop the VM and revert the CD to a normal CD device instead of the image file.To install linux permanently simply run the install shortcut from the desktop.Boot the new Virtual Machine and you should end up running the desktop linux.You can use more but I have heard of people running into issues using 1GB For memory settings I used 376mb and it runs just fine.Next open the CD settings and change the CD to run from an image file and point it at the iso image you have downloaded.Once you have done this edit the VM's settings so that the boot sequence will use the CD first.Create a new VM (I chose 'Linux' and then 'Other Linux kernel 2.6').Installing Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake under Parallels Desktop is really easy to do so here's a few pointers how to do it and to customise it to be easier to use via the mac keyboard: The installation

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