There were no replies to this question. After digging in a bit, I found a way to make it work. I made two changes, and it is not clear whether one or the other - or both - were needed. Change one - Upgrade to VirtualBox 7.0.6. Among the items listed in the changelog for this version is compatibility with RHEL 9 guests. Change two - In the Settings - Basic screen of the guest I changed its type from "RedHat 64-bit" to "RHEL 9.x 64-bit." The ISO for network install booted and ran through with no errors. Hopefully others can benefit from my experience. =============== Bill Gee On 1/15/23 14:29, Bill Gee wrote: > It is time for me to start figuring out how to get all my C7 machines > upgraded. It is obvious that C7 is pretty much an afterthought anymore ... > > My starting point is to set up a C9 machine as a VirtualBox guest. I > have a VBox machine (currently 6.0.40) which runs C8 Stream on the metal > and has been running well for over a year. It has many different guests > on it including Fedora 37, CentOS7, FreeDOS, Windows and others. > > I downloaded the network installer ISO file for C9, then set up a VB > guest to run it. It boots the ISO for about 5 seconds then gives a > kernel panic. I am attaching a screen shot and hope it survives the > transit through this email list. It is not possible to scrape this as > text and I do not trust myself to type it all correctly. > > Did I miss something bloody obvious in the guest configuration? >