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Hi
I am sure the answer to this is simple but I just cant see it.
I have a working VM on a Fedora 8 host. It has Win XP as the guest and I run VBox as root to avoid permission issues.
I created a new VM and tried to install Centos as the OS but it wouldn't. So just in caseit may be the Media I tried to install Fedora from a known good DVD and it wont install because it cant detect the Mother Board? Just to make sure the new VM was OK I installed WinXP on it. Can anyone shed some light on this.

Tell the exact guest config.


Check also MD5Sums of the ISOs/DVDs.

Hi thanks for looking in. Its VBox 1.6.0 and the settings are:

General
Name joe
OS Type Red Hat
Base Memory 256 MB
Video Memory 8 MB
Boot Order CD/DVD-ROM, Hard Disk
ACPI Enabled
IO APIC Disabled
VT-x/AMD-V Disabled
PAE/NX Disabled

Hard Disks
IDE Primary Master joe.vdi [Normal, 8.00 GB]

CD/DVD-ROM
Host Drive TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-S182F (/dev/sr0)

Floppy
Not mounted


Audio
Disabled


Network
Adapter 0 PCnet-FAST III (NAT)


Serial Ports
Disabled


USB
Device Filters 0 (0 active)


Shared Folders
None


Remote Display
Disabled

What are you thoughts?

Running as root is a bad idea, you just need to add your user to the vboxusers group and then you don't have to worry about anything

AceofSpades19 wrote:Running as root is a bad idea, you just need to add your user to the vboxusers group and then you don't have to worry about anything

Thanks for the advice but running as root or not it still doesn't install.

OK, I just installed VBox on a I686 machine with Fedora 8 as host and installed both Centos and Ferdora 7 as guests do this must be related to the hardware I'm running it on which is an Asus M2N-MX SE Plus mobo with a an AMD quad core 9500. I think its time for a bug report.

Bug reported. Answer turn off ACPI turn on I/O ACPI.