Comment 127 for bug 246067

I was able to get Alpha 5 working in Virtualbox 2.0. I used the alternate installer instead of the desktop CD. Of course, I used the noreplace-paravirt kernel option. After installing, I tried booting with noreplace-paravirt. It booted, but X wouldn't respond to my keyboard or mouse. I went to a virtual terminal and tried to add the c-korn ppa ( https://launchpad.net/~c-korn/+archive ), but when I ran apt-get update, it couldn't resolve any domain names. The network interface wasn't working. I manually downloaded the patched kernel from http://ppa.launchpad.net/c-korn/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux/ and put it on an iso, then mounted it in Virtualbox. After installing it via dpkg, I restarted the VM. It booted without a problem. After that I used Synaptic to force the versions of all the kernel packages to the c-korn repository. This seems like it should work for everyone.