On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 1:54 AM, Railic Njegos <railic.njegos at 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 at 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