Re: fedora on virtualbox

Mike Wright wrote:

Hi all,

I've spent 7 hours so far trying to install fc4/fc6/centos5 onto virtualbox on two different machines and in every case the host freezes and requires a hard reset. On the laptop it actually powers off when it hits whatever the problem is.

I've no problem installing (gag me) XP.

Has anybody had any success installing fedora or centos onto virtualbox?

If it's not doable I'd like to know so I can look for a different solution. If it is doable I'd appreciate any pointers.

I have VirtualBox running on Fedora 8 x86_64 on an Opteron 1210 with
CentOS 5.1 (32-bit) running inside it (it wouldn't install the 64-bit
version).  Details on the host machine:

    AMD Opteron 1210, 2GB RAM, kernel 2.6.24.7-92.fc8

Here's the VirtualBox XML file for it (filename is
/home/rick/.VirtualBox/Machines/CentOS-51/CentOS-51.xml):

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>
<!-- innotek VirtualBox Machine Configuration -->

    <ExtraData>
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/SaveMountedAtRuntime" value="yes"/>

      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/Fullscreen" value="off"/>
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/Seamless" value="off"/>
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/AutoresizeGuest" value="on"/>
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/LastCloseAction" value="powerOff"/>
    </ExtraData>
    <Description>CentOS 5.1, 32-bit</Description>
    <Hardware>
      <CPU>
        <HardwareVirtEx enabled="false"/>
      </CPU>
      <Memory RAMSize="512"/>
      <Boot>
        <Order device="Floppy" position="1"/>
        <Order device="DVD" position="2"/>
        <Order device="HardDisk" position="3"/>
      </Boot>
      <Display MonitorCount="1" VRAMSize="8"/>

      <BIOS>
        <ACPI enabled="true"/>
        <IOAPIC enabled="false"/>
        <Logo displayTime="0" fadeIn="true" fadeOut="true"/>
        <BootMenu mode="messageandmenu"/>
        <TimeOffset value="0"/>
        <PXEDebug enabled="false"/>
        <IDEController type="PIIX3"/>
      </BIOS>
      <DVDDrive passthrough="false">
        <HostDrive src="/dev/sr0"/>
      </DVDDrive>
      <FloppyDrive enabled="true"/>
      <USBController enabled="false" enabledEhci="false"/>
      <Network>

          <NAT/>
        </Adapter>

      </Network>
      <Uart>

      </Uart>
      <Lpt>
        <Port IOBase="0x378" IRQ="4" enabled="false" slot="0"/>
        <Port IOBase="0x378" IRQ="4" enabled="false" slot="1"/>
      </Lpt>
      <AudioAdapter driver="null" enabled="false"/>
      <SharedFolders/>
      <Clipboard mode="Bidirectional"/>
    </Hardware>
    <HardDiskAttachments>

    </HardDiskAttachments>
  </Machine>

</VirtualBox>
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When you install, make sure you tell VBox that it's a Linux 2.6-style
machine.  Hope that helps.  And there's a second VBox guest running
Windows 2003 Server (yes, I'm embarrassed about that...but I had to have
it for a specific project).

If you need more help, you can contact me off-list and I'll try to give
you whatever you need.
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