CentOS guest fails to completely boot

[S.Torri]

I have CentOS 6.5 guest OS running in a VM on Windows 7 Professional host OS. The problem I am having is that the CentOS starts to boot showing its tri-color progress bars but fails to completely boot once they reach 100%. The screen shows the load screen with the progress bar greyed out with the words "CentOS 6.5" to the right of it. I have had other guest OS freeze like this before. My only recourse was to reinstall the guest OS. Is there a way to check or fix a guest image to see what is wrong?

[S.Torri]

Log for Guest OS VM

[S.Torri]

Something is happening with the Xorg configuration file that is causing the boot to hang. To get around this problem boot the guest Linux OS in single user mode:

1. Start guest OS
2. When GRUB message comes on the screen press `Esc`
3. Type 'a' to append the word "single" to the end of the kernel statement
4. Press enter

At the 'root' prompt remove/rename Xorg configuration file:

mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bk

Reboot the system.

[S.Torri]

Removal of the /etc/X11/xorg.conf allowed the system to reboot. I think because I installed NVIDIA CUDA there was an additional configuration file in the /etc/X11/yum.conf.d directory from NVIDIA that was messing with the default Xorg configuration. Something in those files or the drivers were preventing the X windows to start.

[aeichner]

Please reopen if still relevant with a recent VirtualBox release.