If you do not have the VGA font installed, you will need to install it first (you can check this by skipping to step 6, and checking whether running the VM gives an error message). You will only have to do this once. The VGA font resides in misc/vga.pcf. In order to install it, you'll need to be root. Put it in the X fonts 'misc' directory and do what is necessary on your system to rebuild that font directory and let your system know about the update. For example, on Mandrake 7.1: user> su root> cp misc/vga.pcf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc root> gzip /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/vga.pcf root> chmod ugo+r /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/vga.pcf.gz root> mkfontdir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc root> killall -HUP xfs # notify font server of the change root> xset fp rehash root> exit