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