[CentOS] SOLVED Re: Booting CentOS 6 in VirtualBox on Ubuntu

Thu Jul 28 05:48:55 UTC 2011
Cliff Pratt <enkiduonthenet at gmail.com>

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 8:16 PM, 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.
>
It was a silly error. In the VirtualBox definition I hadn't enabled
PAE. After that all went OK.

Cheers,

Cliff