[CentOS] Booting CentOS 6 in VirtualBox on Ubuntu

Railic Njegos railic.njegos at gmail.com
Wed Jul 27 13:54:28 UTC 2011


I have several machine CentOS 6 in Oracle Virtual Box and on
VMWARE ESXi. All machine working great.

I use Centos 6 i386 DVD and netinstall from local repository.

Problem may be if you try to run x64 CentOS virtual machine on
i386 OS Ubuntu.

Cheers,
Njegos

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:16 AM, John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Cliff Pratt wrote:
>
>> I trying to try out CentOS 6 in an Oracle VirtualBox running on
>> Ubuntu. Has anyone been able to get this configuration working?
>>
>> When I try to boot the "Live" ISO it starts to do the countdown but
>> when it reaches zero it gets stuck - nothing else happens. No error
>> messages and since the install never really gets going, no logs.
>>
>> I've checked the mailing list archive back a few months, but I've not
>> seen anything related.
>
> I've installed off DVD1 and done kickstart installs off the netinstall CD on
> VirtualBox 4 on CentOS5, and that works just fine.  I can't see a reason why
> Ubuntu would make any real difference.
>
> I've not tried the Live ISO.
>
> jh
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