On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 2:57 AM, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday 27 July 2011 05:26:15 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? > > I did it under Fedora rather than Ubuntu, but in general yes, it works. > >> 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 had this problem with Fedora 15 Live CD --- when trying to install it > into the VirtualBox VM running on the Fedora 14 host. > > It would do the countdown, and just hang. Then I tried the DVD installation, > and instead of just hanging, it politely told me that I am using the wrong > kernel for this architecture. > > That was a clue what to look for --- I tried to install the 64bit version into > VirtualBox The host was also 64bit, so I thought it would Just Work. But it > doesn't. After downloading the 32bit version of the LiveCD, it worked > perfectly. > > Then I RTFM: > > http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch03.html#intro-64bitguests > > which explained a lot of things for me. ;-) > > HTH, :-) > Marko > Thanks Marco. I already knew that I couldn't create a 64bit guest, so I was using the 32bit ISO. Exactly like you I tried a different method on install (in my case the netinstall) and got a message about PAE. Turned it on in the VM and off went the Live CD! Cheers, Cliff