CentOS - Jul 2011 - Booting CentOS 6 in VirtualBox on Ubuntu

I trying to try out CentOS 6 in an Oracle VirtualBox running on
Ubuntu. Has anyone been able to get this configuration working?

When I try to boot the "Live" ISO it starts to do the countdown but
when it reaches zero it gets stuck - nothing else happens. No error
messages and since the install never really gets going, no logs.

I've checked the mailing list archive back a few months, but I've not
seen anything related.

Cheers,

Cliff

On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Cliff Pratt wrote:
> I trying to try out CentOS 6 in an Oracle VirtualBox running on
> Ubuntu. Has anyone been able to get this configuration working?
>
> When I try to boot the "Live" ISO it starts to do the countdown
but
> when it reaches zero it gets stuck - nothing else happens. No error
> messages and since the install never really gets going, no logs.
>
> I've checked the mailing list archive back a few months, but I've
not
> seen anything related.
I've installed off DVD1 and done kickstart installs off the netinstall CD on
VirtualBox 4 on CentOS5, and that works just fine.  I can't see a reason why
Ubuntu would make any real difference.

I've not tried the Live ISO.

jh

On Wednesday 27 July 2011 05:26:15 Cliff Pratt wrote:
> I trying to try out CentOS 6 in an Oracle VirtualBox running on
> Ubuntu. Has anyone been able to get this configuration working?
I did it under Fedora rather than Ubuntu, but in general yes, it works.
 
> When I try to boot the "Live" ISO it starts to do the countdown
but
> when it reaches zero it gets stuck - nothing else happens. No error
> messages and since the install never really gets going, no logs.
I've had this problem with Fedora 15 Live CD --- when trying to install it 
into the VirtualBox VM running on the Fedora 14 host.

It would do the countdown, and just hang. Then I tried the DVD installation, 
and instead of just hanging, it politely told me that I am using the wrong 
kernel for this architecture.

That was a clue what to look for --- I tried to install the 64bit version into 
VirtualBox The host was also 64bit, so I thought it would Just Work. But it 
doesn't. After downloading the 32bit version of the LiveCD, it worked 
perfectly.

Then I RTFM:

   http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch03.html#intro-64bitguests

which explained a lot of things for me. ;-)

HTH, :-)
Marko