On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Andrea Crotti <[email protected]> wrote: > Anyone was able to install centos 5.7 on virtualbox? > > I found that there is a quite old bug talking about that, and I'm still > unable to boot > anything... > > I'm running Virtualbox 4.1.4 (OSE) on archlinux >
Ive had my share of struggles with Centos installs. For this and other reasons I'm seriously contemplating dumping my personal support of this OS, my reasons why are left for another discussion on another forum. That being said, I have always been able to figure out what I needed to do to get it working. My assessment is that it is something of an experiment to get centos installed and the specific instructions seem to vary a little depending on your version of centos and the version of vbox you are using. When you setup a new centos guest vbox uses a redhat profile for a baseline to begin the settings for the vm. Pay close attention to the system settings, expecially the motherboard and processor tabs. Under the processor tab there is a check box for enabling PAE/NX settings. Under the motherboard tab there is a drop down for the chipset to support and there is a check box for enabling IO APIC Over the years Ive had to change each of these three settings to get centos installed. I can only tell you to change these things one at a time. and try the install after each change, so you can isolate for yourself which settings is the problem. Be sure to experiment again with updated versions of vbox and centos. HTH Rance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy2 _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
