Scott Silva spake the following on 6/5/2007 8:26 AM:

hkclark@gmail.com spake the following on 6/5/2007 5:19 AM:

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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.

Disregard my input. I am running VMWare 5.4 not 4.5, so my tests are meaningless to you.

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I am running the free VMWare Server 1.0.3 and CentOS 5 seems to load fine for me. It loads up in a reasonable amount of time given that it is running on a workstation in a virtual session.

What is the configuration of your VMWare session? I set mine up using mostly default choices. I did change the "system type" To RHEL 4 and I bumped the default RAM up to 512M.