I am trying to install a CentOS 6.4 x86_64 VM using a CentOS 5.9 x86_64
host, but its install has froze *twice*. What I am doing is to create a
10gig LVM volume, which I put a MS-DOS partition table on (using fdisk).
I then format the only partition to ext3, install grub and install the
pxeboot kernel and initrd.img and a simple grub.conf to load this.
I have the CentOS 6.4 x86_64 ISOs mounted (via loop) and exported as NFS file
systems:
/distrocds/CentOS/6.4/CentOS-6.4-i386-bin-DVD1.iso
3.6G 3.6G 0 100% /centos64i386/1
/distrocds/CentOS/6.4/CentOS-6.4-i386-bin-DVD2.iso
1.1G 1.1G 0 100% /centos64i386/2
/distrocds/CentOS/6.4/CentOS-6.4-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso
4.1G 4.1G 0 100% /centos64x86_64/1
/distrocds/CentOS/6.4/CentOS-6.4-x86_64-bin-DVD2.iso
1.4G 1.4G 0 100% /centos64x86_64/2
sauron.deepsoft.com% sudo exportfs
/centos64x86_64/1
192.168.250.0/255.255.255.0
/centos64x86_64/2
192.168.250.0/255.255.255.0
/centos64i386/1
192.168.250.0/255.255.255.0
/centos64i386/2
192.168.250.0/255.255.255.0
I am able to boot up the installer and have it NFS mount the first DVD
and things go fine util it installs
selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-195.el6.noarch. The VM is busy for a
while, then the CPU usage goes to zero and it just sits there.
What am I doing wrong?
This worked just fine with the 32-bit version of CentOS 6.4.
Is it because some package from the second disk is needed? Do I have to
create a merged version of the DVDs? Or is something else wrong?
Screenshot available here:
http://www.deepsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/FrozenInstallx86_64.png
And the VM's defination is here:
http://www.deepsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/c664guest.xml
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