[CentOS] Installation of CentOS 6 on KVM - Hangs

[Lars Hecking]

Daniel J Walsh writes:
> On 05/16/2012 12:29 PM, Tim Nelson wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> Greetings-
> >> 
> >> I'm attempting to install CentOS-6 x86_64 to a virtual machine running
> >> via KVM on a Proxmox 1.9 system. The specs are 4x CPUs, 4GB RAM, and
> >> 160GB HDD. Installation proceeds fine using either minimal or netinstall
> >> CDs until installation of the selinux or
> > 
> > More specifically, it's hanging on the selinux-policy-targeted RPM. Not
> > sure if this makes a difference, but I thought it worthy of note.
> > 
> > --Tim _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list 
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> How much memory did you give to the VM?  selinux-policy rpm within a update
> takes a lot of memory.

 Absolutely. I found that it will not work well or at all with less than
 512MB of RAM. If less is wanted, it can be reduced afterwards, but that's
 the minimum needed for installation.