On 12/5/2013 5:35 AM, Toralf Lund wrote: > Precisely! An the host being the CentOS 6.5 system. Perhaps I wasn't > clear enough about this, although it seemed obvious when I wrote the post. > > The guest OS really doesn't come into the picture at all, in that > VirtualBox seems to crash long before it starts thinking about loading it. have you considered using KVM rather than VirtualBox for this? Configured properly, its much higher performance. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast