On 10/07/2011 11:48 PM, Rance Hall wrote: > 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.
Thanks a lot for your suggestions, I tried on my personal machine and 5.6 worked fine, so now I tried again and it was the IO APIC which was disabled. Enabling it everything seems to work, thanks again ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
