In using virt-install, and then virt-viewer to create a CentOS 5.5 x64 guest (in my case for KVM), using the text mode for the install, it failed on me in a similar way just if I added extra package groups - just stalled. It went forward successfully if I just went with the standard default at that point, and waited until post-install to yum other components into the guest. Whit On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:57:24AM -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > > Had some trouble getting Centos x64 installed as a guest in my new Centos > > 5.5 x64 server using Xen (thanks again for all the help getting the > > hardware virtualization turned on and confirmed yesterday!). > > > > When I chose OS Linux, and whatever they called the detailed OS subtype I > > chose the Red Hat Enterprise 5.4 and greater, and then tried to install > > Centos 5.5, the install started and I got into the graphics installer, but > > when it was supposed to start installing individual packages the whole > > virt-manager and console window hung. Three times, at that same point. > > (I was monitoring web traffic to the install files it was working from, > > and it wasn't fetching files, either). > > Don't look at me - I never use the graphical one; I always start the > installer with "linux text", and I think I can get to some things easier. > IIRC, you can also <alt-F2> or something, and get another shell prompt. > > mark