however when trying to create another guest VM containing Centos 5.4 I get a repeated failure when booting the installation media. I've verified the checksum of the downloaded iso, and have tried installing both from a burned DVD and directly from the iso. I also tried the Centos 5.3 DVD iso and got the same failure.
I get the text menu where F2, F3, etc., give various options. I hit enter to proceed, it goes on for only a very few seconds then stops with these lines as the last few on the screen:
NetLabel: initializing
NetLabel: domain hash size = 128
NetLabel: protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4
NetLabel: unlabeled traffic allowed by default
NET: Registered protocol family 2
then it just sits there, apparently forever (for some values of "forever"
). I've let it sit for up to 10 minutes and it seems truly hung.I've tried turning off as many of the VM options as I can (in VB) and it makes no difference. I've tried a few kernel boot options such as "linux noacpi" and "linux noprobe" and similar and it makes no difference.
I've told VB that it's Red Hat linux, 32-bit. The physical host is a new AMD Phenom-II X2 with 4 gigs of RAM, running a 32-bit Centos.
I note a number of others posting about Centos-related questions, all of which implies that they have been able to actually install. So I'd appreciate a clue or two here, if anyone can advise me.
Thanks in advance!