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
This is just a guess, but I'm thinking that it doesn't like the kernel you're using. If you have a choice between a 2.6 and a 2.4 in the install options go with the 2.4.
Geoff Sent from my BlackBerry wireless handheld.
-----Original Message----- From: hkclark@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 08:19:24 To:"CentOS mailing list" centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] CentOS 5 Issues Booting Under VMWare
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 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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.
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:
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.
Just finished a "server" install, and it booted in less than 2 minutes, including SSH key generation. Now doing a minimal install because I started the server install before I finished reading your message.
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:
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.
Now I completed a minimal install, and it took 90 seconds to boot. What options did you pick for the Vmware setup?
On 6/5/07, Scott Silva ssilva@sgvwater.com wrote:
I'm doing an install right now. I'll let you know my results.
Now I completed a minimal install, and it took 90 seconds to boot. What options did you pick for the Vmware setup?
I went with the defaults for their "RHEL 3" profile in VMWare 4.5, except that I bumped up the memory to 750MB.
hkclark@gmail.com spake the following on 6/5/2007 10:10 AM:
On 6/5/07, Scott Silva ssilva@sgvwater.com wrote:
I'm doing an install right now. I'll let you know my results.
Now I completed a minimal install, and it took 90 seconds to boot. What options did you pick for the Vmware setup?
I went with the defaults for their "RHEL 3" profile in VMWare 4.5, except that I bumped up the memory to 750MB.
I used the RedHat Linux profile, but I change the scsi controller from the default that RedHat usually doesn't have drivers for. Is this the first boot after install, or did you do any customizing?
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.
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?
I have it running on server (Ubuntu 6.10 host) and it runs perfectly fine with 512Mb allocated (out of 2GB RAM). I am using the machine to test Fedora Directory and it seems to be quite performant.
Gabriel
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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:
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.
On 6/5/07, hkclark@gmail.com hkclark@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Ok I was first going to say I could not replicate this.. but then saw that the host OS is Windows XP which I do not have access to. However, vmware workstation only supports the 2.6 kernel on Workstation 5.0 and above. Early 2.6 kernels are known to work on Workstation-4.5 on some hardware but a lot of systems had the problems you are listing when trying to run Workstation-4.x with CentOS-4.
I think you are either going to need to update to a newer version of workstation (looking at wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware
OS support
64-Bit Solaris 10 1/06 (Update 1) and Solaris 10 6/06 (Update 2) fail with a triple fault on Intel Pentium M-based systems Merom, Woodcrest, and Conroe. A Sun Microsystems' blog has published a workaround for this issue.
Older versions of VMware seem unable to run newer versions of Linux (2.4-series kernels seem to panic when run on VMware 2.x; and 2.6-series kernels, when run on VMware 3.x, give a protection error). VMware Workstation in Nov 2006 reached version 5.5.3, which supports these newer operating systems and kernels. However, the latest versions of the 2.6.x kernel require a patch to use all the VMware features \u2014 even when using VMware Workstation 5.0 or 5.5. This patch, freely available as vmware-any-any-updatexxx (as of 2007-04-16: update109), comes via the Czech Technical University.
On 6/5/07, Stephen John Smoogen smooge@gmail.com wrote:
Ok I was first going to say I could not replicate this.. but then saw that the host OS is Windows XP which I do not have access to. However, vmware workstation only supports the 2.6 kernel on Workstation 5.0 and above. Early 2.6 kernels are known to work on Workstation-4.5 on some hardware but a lot of systems had the problems you are listing when trying to run Workstation-4.x with CentOS-4.
Thanks Stephen and everyone else. I had not run into issues with VMWare 4.5 and the 2.6 kernel under CentOS 4, but you convinced me to try an upgrade of VMWare and it's working like a champ!
Thanks again, Kennedy
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