Getting Ubuntu 7.10 working in Microsoft Virtual PC 2007

The new “Gutsy Gibbon” version of Ubuntu was officially released this week. While some of the developers at Teamprise use Ubuntu as their primary OS, I personally prefer Windows Vista, however I keep an Ubuntu image around so that I can quickly test any new UI code I write in an alternate OS. Getting Ubuntu to install in VMWare is pretty trivial - the standard installation seems to work just fine. However getting it to work in Microsoft Virtual PC is a little more complicated - the various tricks are located in various forum and bug posts around the web that I can never find when I need them so I am collating them here for my own use later - hopefully you may also find them useful. Please bear in mind that I know enough about Linux to be dangerous rather than useful, so this may not be the “best” way - however it is my way ;-)