Re: ps - Illegal Instruction

[Mark Allums <mark@allums.com>]

On 9/19/2010 7:15 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> This is a new install of Lenny on Windows 7 Virtual PC.  I basically
> took the defaults, with a couple of changes to get it to install and get
> gnome's display correct.
>
> I still have several problems, which may be related. The easiest one to
> find is an "Illegal Instruction" when I run a simple ps command. This
> occurs whether I run as a user or root.
>
> I've done a lot of looking, but don't seem to find anything similar.
> Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> I'm still pretty much a noob on Linux, so please be gentle :)

>

Your problem is probably Virtual PC.  Try Virtualbox (free) or VMware 
server (free) or VMware Desktop (paid and kind of expensive but much 
more usable for newbies than server).

I have some Virtualbox installations, and Debian---both 32-bit and 
64-bit---runs great on it.