I have used CentOS 5 on both ESX 3 and Vmware Server without issue. Have you attempted this vmware image on server? Do you experience the same issues?
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Scott Silva Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 11:26 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Re: CentOS 5 Issues Booting Under VMWare
hkclark@gmail.com spake the following on 6/5/2007 5:19 AM:
Hi,
VMWare has been a great tool for me to experiment with CentOS 3 and CentOS 4. However, I'm running into issues with CentOS 5. First, it is *extremely* slow to boot (as in it takes over an hour to boot CentOS 5 on a machine that boots CentOS 3 & 4 in less than one minute). Then, after an hour of slowly watching the messages go by on
the console and the CPU of the host machine pegged at 100%, I get this error:
VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0) NOT_REACHED F(562):1742 A log file is available in ...
I have done a "minimal install" of CentOS 5 (all checkboxes in the category/task selection screen are unchecked -- so to X-Windows involved) and the virtual machine has 750MB of RAM. I'm using VMWare Workstation 4.5 and the host OS is Windows XP Pro. I have not been able to install the VMWare tool since I can't get it to finish booting.
Has anyone else run into this? I have seen some discussion on the list about VMWare and CentOS 5, but nothing that seemed to match what I'm running into.
Thanks, Kennedy
I'm doing an install right now. I'll let you know my results.