[CentOS] Installation of CentOS 6 on KVM - Hangs

Fri May 18 21:30:15 UTC 2012
Dean Jones <dean.jones at oregonstate.edu>

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Tim Nelson <tnelson at rockbochs.com> wrote:
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> > Greetings-
>> >
>> > I'm attempting to install CentOS-6 x86_64 to a virtual machine
>> > running via KVM on a Proxmox 1.9 system. The specs are 4x CPUs, 4GB
>> > RAM, and 160GB HDD. Installation proceeds fine using either minimal
>> > or netinstall CDs until installation of the selinux or
>>
>> More specifically, it's hanging on the selinux-policy-targeted RPM.
>> Not sure if this makes a difference, but I thought it worthy of
>> note.
>>
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> Of interesting note, it now no longer hangs on selinux-policy-targeted, but every time now on qla2xxx-firmware which is the last package. I've let it sit overnight, same results.
>
> Even though I'd already verified MD5 of the ISO, I redownloaded from a different mirror, same results. I've tried disabling ACPI on the VM, giving less RAM, more RAM, use smaller HDD, larger HDD, more CPU cores, less CPU cores, etc. No change.
>
> Surely *someone* has installed CentOS 6 in a KVM VM and gotten it to work? :)

Yes I have quite a few CentOS 6 installs in KVM and have not
experienced any of the issues you have mentioned.