Virtual PC 2007, Vista Home Premium and Linux distributions

Wanted to have access to a Linux environment on my Vista laptop. Although Virtual PC 2007 is not officially supported on Vista Home Premium, I gave it a try and so far it appears to run fine. Attempted to install Ubuntu 9.10 within Virtual PC but there were some display problems and eventually it appears that it started Ubuntu in the demo mode. That is, not installed to (virtual) hard disk. Moved to the second most popular Linux distribution according to DistroWatch which is Fedora 12.  This had display problems after the initial boot-up.  So came to Open Suse, which I have installed before without problems.  The current version, 11.2, also installed without too many problems (two seemingly corrupted files?).  Access to internet and Gnome GUI desktop environment within virtual environment.