On Monday, July 18, 2011 09:32 AM, Christopher Chan wrote: > 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. Oops, taking that back, virtualbox is not like kvm or xen. It looks like that it does not need a hardware hypervisor.