[CentOS] cent0s-6 and virtualbox

Michel Donais donais at telupton.com
Mon Jul 18 03:17:04 UTC 2011


> Hrrm, seems as if the ISO may be using a PAE kernel by default.  PAE is
> a kernel that will be able to make use of more than 4GB of RAM with
> i686.
>
> Ah, I see it's apparently a decision by RH.  I assume there's some logic
> in it, though I don't know what it is.
>
>
> http://jp.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=26352&forum=14
>
>
> See if it's possible to add
> PAE to the machine settings in VirtualBox.   Settings=>System=>Processor
>
The box is already checked but the CPU doesn't have PAE capability so it's 
useless.

It won't be a bad thing thatthe install may do a choice of a cpu with or not 
the capability of PAE as it was in the past.


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Michel Donais 




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