[CentOS] centos 4.8 dvd on virtualbox x86_64

Thu Feb 25 21:22:15 UTC 2010
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

John R Pierce wrote:
> I just installed VirtualBox latest version on a new Win7 Pro x86_64 
> desktop, and tried to create a 64bit CentOS 4.8 install for doing some 
> procedural testing...  all install attempts hung at the samme place, 
> shortly after grub, it hangs at...
>
> Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
>
> sadly, I didn't capture the rest of the console output prior to that.
>
>
> 32bit 4.8 boots and installs just fine. CPU is a Intel Core2Duo E7600 
> which supposedly has VT-x. System is a Dell Optiplex 755 (Intel G45 chipset)
>   

same configuration, CentOS 5.4 x86_64 DVD.iso boots just fine and is 
busy installing now.

must be something with the 2.6.9 64bit kernel, I guess.