A CEntOS 4.6 VM never finish to boot.

[svbu12]

The PC's hardware:

• CPU: Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz Dual Core.
• RAM: 3 GB
• OS: Linux CEntOS 4.6 With all patches.
• VM RAM: I assigned a whole GB of RAM just for the VM.

Problem Description:

1. I downloaded a DVD-ROM .ISO of CentOS-4.6-i386-binDVD.iso from the ​CentOS mirror
2. I start Sun VBox.
3. I create a new VM.
4. I install CEntOS 4.6 from the DVD image.
5. I follow directions and install a CEntOS 4.6 into a logical VM 30 GB disk.
6. The install process works properly until the end.
7. Once it is completed, I reboot the VM, Then I change the boot order from DVD image to VM 30 GB hdd.
8. I click on the start button to restart the CEntOS 4.6 VM.
9. All we see is a black screen. even after an hour, it never change.

Other info:
I know the DVD image run properly. I used it to install the physical machine.

I know Sun VBox works properly too. I can run Linux DSL, Ubuntu 8.08, CentOS 5.2 And a few other very properly...

[svbu12]

Virtual Box 1.6.4 log of a session with CEntOS 4.6

[svbu12]

When the VM is trying to boot, the CPU on the physical computer is used to 100%. Each cores of the CPU are sharing the load.

Thanks for the Good Job.

[Frank Mehnert]

Please could you

• retry the installation with VirtualBox 1.6.6 and/or VirtualBox 2.0.2 and then
• attach the correct VBox.log file. You will find the file when going to the main selector window and selecting Machine / Show Log ...

[Mark Anderson]

I believe this is because PAE/NX is not enabled in advanced, general settings. I just had the same issue until I enabled PAE/NX.

[Frank Mehnert]

No response, closing. Before re-opening make sure that you checked the latest release 2.2.2.