I give up. Tell you what guys, when he is spending time trying to figure out why something won't work in Linux because of vmware or virtualpc, you can have fun helping him out.

virtualpc and vmware are great for quick installations of those who already know what they are doing in the OS, and thus are willing to accept the limitations that vmware imposes.

It is NOT good for someone just learning linux, as it only adds more variables to bug testing and more haze when he's trying to find answers of "Why doesn't ___ work?"

From learning to configure his sound card (not an emulated vmware one, his REAL soundcard), to managing his kernel timings (something vmware does NOT allow), VMware is going to be a huge hinderance right now.