On Monday, July 18, 2011 01:52 AM, Michel Donais wrote: > I want to get a look at Cents-6 > The computer is a portable Thinkpad T-42 > The base OS is Windows XP Professionnal > I tried to use both Microsoft Virtual PC and Oracle Virtual Box with the > same result > I boot from the CD (wich have been burned from an ISO downloaded from a > Centos -6 repo). > The version is CentOS-6.0-i386-bin-DVD.iso > With each virtual machine I get this result at the beginning of the > installation: > "This kernel requires the following features not present on the cpu pae" > "Unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU" > I undeerstand that perhaps the computer processor is too old. > But is there a patch to overpass this problem? You need to have a cpu that has a hardware visor. Otherwise, the only other option will be qemu which is slow.