What you report is odd. That amount of RAM is enough to run a graphical environment. By the way, when you create a new virtual machine, the amount of memory required is suggested automatically by VirtualBox GUI.
Try checking out VirtualBox's logs and CentOS's messages at installation time (they are usually sent to a text terminal other than the one you use to install it, for instance Ctrl+F2 or Ctrl+F4) Saludos, Luis M. Gallardo D. http://lgallardo.com/ On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:13 AM, hadi motamedi <motamed...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you very much for your reply . Please be informed that my client has > 1GB RAM available so I assigned 512 MB RAM to my VirtualBox CentOS 5 guest > installation . Can you please confirm if this is the cause of the problem ? > Thank you in advance > > > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Rance Hall <ran...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 4:38 AM, hadi motamedi <motamed...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Dear All >> > Can you please do me favor and let me know why my VirtualBox installs my >> > guest Linux as just grey command windows (text-based) despite the fact >> > that >> > I select the Graphical mode installation ? Please be informed that I >> > tried >> > for the same on an standalone server and I got graphical environment . >> > Can >> > you please let me know why I cannot get graphical env when trying on >> > VirtualBox ? >> > Let me thank you in advance >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > vbox-users mailing list >> > vbox-users@virtualbox.org >> > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users >> > >> > >> >> This could be due to the amount of memory assigned to the guest os. >> Linux distros often check available ram and default to command line >> installs if not enough memory is available. once the install is done >> and swap space is available it assumes graphics will work fine. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> vbox-users mailing list >> vbox-users@virtualbox.org >> http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users > > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > vbox-users@virtualbox.org > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users > > _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
