Ubuntu – Virtual PC – Display Issue with Ubuntu Server

I'm fairly new here, so I'm not sure if answering old questions is the done thing or not... but if this answer had been here yesterday it would have helped me, so, here goes.

I used the info on this technet page to set up the loopback adapter, and it had almost everything that I needed.

The only issue that I then had was trying to get my VM to access the internet via the Host's connection. I attempted to use Internet Sharing on the Host's network connection to share the connection with the Loopback adapter however, as the Loopback Adapter appeared in Windows 7 as "Unidentified", it was categorized as a Public connection and wouldn't share.

To get round this - I set the default gateway of the Loopback Adapter (accessible by modifying the Loopback Adapter ipV4 settings) to the IP address of my Virtual Machine. This enabled me to categorize the Loopback Adapter connection as a Home or Work network - and hey presto, the network sharing started working.

tty0 is usually used for a serial console. Check your config for tty0 and tty1 by looking at /etc/init/tty0.conf and /etc/init/tty1.conf respectively.