I am trying to install a CentOS 6.4 x86_64 VM using a CentOS 5.9 x86_64 host, but its install has froze *twice*. What I am doing is to create a 10gig LVM volume, which I put a MS-DOS partition table on (using fdisk). I then format the only partition to ext3, install grub and install the pxeboot kernel and initrd.img and a simple grub.conf to load this.

I have the CentOS 6.4 x86_64 ISOs mounted (via loop) and exported as NFS file systems:

/distrocds/CentOS/6.4/CentOS-6.4-i386-bin-DVD1.iso 3.6G 3.6G 0 100% /centos64i386/1 /distrocds/CentOS/6.4/CentOS-6.4-i386-bin-DVD2.iso 1.1G 1.1G 0 100% /centos64i386/2 /distrocds/CentOS/6.4/CentOS-6.4-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso 4.1G 4.1G 0 100% /centos64x86_64/1 /distrocds/CentOS/6.4/CentOS-6.4-x86_64-bin-DVD2.iso 1.4G 1.4G 0 100% /centos64x86_64/2 sauron.deepsoft.com% sudo exportfs /centos64x86_64/1 192.168.250.0/255.255.255.0 /centos64x86_64/2 192.168.250.0/255.255.255.0 /centos64i386/1 192.168.250.0/255.255.255.0 /centos64i386/2 192.168.250.0/255.255.255.0

I am able to boot up the installer and have it NFS mount the first DVD and things go fine util it installs selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-195.el6.noarch. The VM is busy for a while, then the CPU usage goes to zero and it just sits there.

What am I doing wrong?

This worked just fine with the 32-bit version of CentOS 6.4.

Is it because some package from the second disk is needed? Do I have to create a merged version of the DVDs? Or is something else wrong?

Screenshot available here: http://www.deepsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/FrozenInstallx86_64.png

And the VM's defination is here: http://www.deepsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/c664guest.xml