No Problems w/ MS VPC here...
Taking a Linux course at the local univ, trying to pick up where i left off ten years ago with OSS.
One of my small boxes (AMD K-6 3D 455mhz processor, 458mb RAM, couple of old 10-gig drives, small video card...) has SUSE 10.1 working quite well dual-booted with W2G-Pro, but not using MS VPC wrapper. MS VPC said the box was not capable of running VPC. Before that SUSE 10.1 was loaded into the VPC wrapper (for lack of a better term) on a larger box (1.24mhz processor, 780mb RAM, two physical eide drives, 160gig C: and 80gig D:. Both RH Fedora and SUSE 10.1 loaded well onto that second box, of which only RH Fedora (2.4.22.1) remains in a VPC wrapper. The SUSE 10.1 (2.6.16.21.0.25) having migrated over to the older small box. To get the dual-boot to work after loading i had to edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file, telling Windows it was not really where it thought it was. (google dual-boot windows with grub, or some such term, it wasn't in any of my books).
Just got all the parts in yesterday for a new 64-bit box which will house SUSE 10.2, ordered last night from Novell Store. I guess that's my small way of supporting all the work that goes into the development. The boxed version comes with a 32/64 bit DVD, 5 (or 6, can't remember) CDRoms, and a manual. I need all the manuals i can get ahold of, btw.
Just thought i'd toss in my 2c worth; VPC worked fine with RH Fedora and SUSE 10.1 in the VPC wrapper. VPC wrapper would not load on my old smaller box because of inadequate resources, but SUSE loaded dual-boot just fine onto the same box with a clean HD with W2GPro on it's own physical drive. One of the FAQ answers at the SUSE problem-solver says 10.1 doesn't like AMD K-6's, but it loaded fine on mine.
...For what it's worth, just needed to say hello once a year or so...