I trying to try out CentOS 6 in an Oracle VirtualBox running on Ubuntu. Has anyone been able to get this configuration working?
When I try to boot the "Live" ISO it starts to do the countdown but when it reaches zero it gets stuck - nothing else happens. No error messages and since the install never really gets going, no logs.
I've checked the mailing list archive back a few months, but I've not seen anything related.
Cheers,
Cliff
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Cliff Pratt wrote:
I trying to try out CentOS 6 in an Oracle VirtualBox running on Ubuntu. Has anyone been able to get this configuration working?
When I try to boot the "Live" ISO it starts to do the countdown but when it reaches zero it gets stuck - nothing else happens. No error messages and since the install never really gets going, no logs.
I've checked the mailing list archive back a few months, but I've not seen anything related.
I've installed off DVD1 and done kickstart installs off the netinstall CD on VirtualBox 4 on CentOS5, and that works just fine. I can't see a reason why Ubuntu would make any real difference.
I've not tried the Live ISO.
jh
I have several machine CentOS 6 in Oracle Virtual Box and on VMWARE ESXi. All machine working great.
I use Centos 6 i386 DVD and netinstall from local repository.
Problem may be if you try to run x64 CentOS virtual machine on i386 OS Ubuntu.
Cheers, Njegos
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:16 AM, John Hodrien J.H.Hodrien@leeds.ac.uk wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Cliff Pratt wrote:
I trying to try out CentOS 6 in an Oracle VirtualBox running on Ubuntu. Has anyone been able to get this configuration working?
When I try to boot the "Live" ISO it starts to do the countdown but when it reaches zero it gets stuck - nothing else happens. No error messages and since the install never really gets going, no logs.
I've checked the mailing list archive back a few months, but I've not seen anything related.
I've installed off DVD1 and done kickstart installs off the netinstall CD on VirtualBox 4 on CentOS5, and that works just fine. I can't see a reason why Ubuntu would make any real difference.
I've not tried the Live ISO.
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On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 1:54 AM, Railic Njegos railic.njegos@gmail.com wrote:
I have several machine CentOS 6 in Oracle Virtual Box and on VMWARE ESXi. All machine working great.
I use Centos 6 i386 DVD and netinstall from local repository.
Problem may be if you try to run x64 CentOS virtual machine on i386 OS Ubuntu.
Cheers, Njegos
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:16 AM, John Hodrien J.H.Hodrien@leeds.ac.uk wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Cliff Pratt wrote:
I trying to try out CentOS 6 in an Oracle VirtualBox running on Ubuntu. Has anyone been able to get this configuration working?
When I try to boot the "Live" ISO it starts to do the countdown but when it reaches zero it gets stuck - nothing else happens. No error messages and since the install never really gets going, no logs.
I've checked the mailing list archive back a few months, but I've not seen anything related.
I've installed off DVD1 and done kickstart installs off the netinstall CD on VirtualBox 4 on CentOS5, and that works just fine. I can't see a reason why Ubuntu would make any real difference.
I've not tried the Live ISO.
The problem was that I had not switched on PAE in the VM definition. I tried the netinstall and got a message describing exactly why it couldn't boot.
Cheers,
Cliff
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:16 AM, John Hodrien J.H.Hodrien@leeds.ac.uk wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Cliff Pratt wrote:
I trying to try out CentOS 6 in an Oracle VirtualBox running on Ubuntu. Has anyone been able to get this configuration working?
When I try to boot the "Live" ISO it starts to do the countdown but when it reaches zero it gets stuck - nothing else happens. No error messages and since the install never really gets going, no logs.
I've checked the mailing list archive back a few months, but I've not seen anything related.
I've installed off DVD1 and done kickstart installs off the netinstall CD on VirtualBox 4 on CentOS5, and that works just fine. I can't see a reason why Ubuntu would make any real difference.
I've not tried the Live ISO.
I've also not tried the Live CD but kickstart installs from the DVD onto VB VMs on OS X and Win7 work perfectly well for me. Not quite what the OP's asking about but...
On Wednesday 27 July 2011 05:26:15 Cliff Pratt wrote:
I trying to try out CentOS 6 in an Oracle VirtualBox running on Ubuntu. Has anyone been able to get this configuration working?
I did it under Fedora rather than Ubuntu, but in general yes, it works.
When I try to boot the "Live" ISO it starts to do the countdown but when it reaches zero it gets stuck - nothing else happens. No error messages and since the install never really gets going, no logs.
I've had this problem with Fedora 15 Live CD --- when trying to install it into the VirtualBox VM running on the Fedora 14 host.
It would do the countdown, and just hang. Then I tried the DVD installation, and instead of just hanging, it politely told me that I am using the wrong kernel for this architecture.
That was a clue what to look for --- I tried to install the 64bit version into VirtualBox The host was also 64bit, so I thought it would Just Work. But it doesn't. After downloading the 32bit version of the LiveCD, it worked perfectly.
Then I RTFM:
http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch03.html#intro-64bitguests
which explained a lot of things for me. ;-)
HTH, :-) Marko
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 2:57 AM, Marko Vojinovic vvmarko@gmail.com wrote:
On Wednesday 27 July 2011 05:26:15 Cliff Pratt wrote:
I trying to try out CentOS 6 in an Oracle VirtualBox running on Ubuntu. Has anyone been able to get this configuration working?
I did it under Fedora rather than Ubuntu, but in general yes, it works.
When I try to boot the "Live" ISO it starts to do the countdown but when it reaches zero it gets stuck - nothing else happens. No error messages and since the install never really gets going, no logs.
I've had this problem with Fedora 15 Live CD --- when trying to install it into the VirtualBox VM running on the Fedora 14 host.
It would do the countdown, and just hang. Then I tried the DVD installation, and instead of just hanging, it politely told me that I am using the wrong kernel for this architecture.
That was a clue what to look for --- I tried to install the 64bit version into VirtualBox The host was also 64bit, so I thought it would Just Work. But it doesn't. After downloading the 32bit version of the LiveCD, it worked perfectly.
Then I RTFM:
http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch03.html#intro-64bitguests
which explained a lot of things for me. ;-)
HTH, :-) Marko
Thanks Marco. I already knew that I couldn't create a 64bit guest, so I was using the 32bit ISO. Exactly like you I tried a different method on install (in my case the netinstall) and got a message about PAE. Turned it on in the VM and off went the Live CD!
Cheers,
Cliff
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