CentOS - Mar 2013 - CentOS 6.4 x86_64 VM Install freezes

I am trying to install a CentOS 6.4 x86_64 VM using a CentOS 5.9 x86_64
host, but its install has froze *twice*. What I am doing is to create a
10gig LVM volume, which I put a MS-DOS partition table on (using fdisk).
I then format the only partition to ext3, install grub and install the
pxeboot kernel and initrd.img and a simple grub.conf to load this.

I have the CentOS 6.4 x86_64 ISOs mounted (via loop) and exported as NFS file
systems:

/distrocds/CentOS/6.4/CentOS-6.4-i386-bin-DVD1.iso
                      3.6G  3.6G     0 100% /centos64i386/1
/distrocds/CentOS/6.4/CentOS-6.4-i386-bin-DVD2.iso
                      1.1G  1.1G     0 100% /centos64i386/2
/distrocds/CentOS/6.4/CentOS-6.4-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso
                      4.1G  4.1G     0 100% /centos64x86_64/1
/distrocds/CentOS/6.4/CentOS-6.4-x86_64-bin-DVD2.iso
                      1.4G  1.4G     0 100% /centos64x86_64/2
sauron.deepsoft.com% sudo exportfs
/centos64x86_64/1
                192.168.250.0/255.255.255.0
/centos64x86_64/2
                192.168.250.0/255.255.255.0
/centos64i386/1
                192.168.250.0/255.255.255.0
/centos64i386/2
                192.168.250.0/255.255.255.0

I am able to boot up the installer and have it NFS mount the first DVD
and things go fine util it installs
selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-195.el6.noarch.  The VM is busy for a
while, then the CPU usage goes to zero and it just sits there.

What am I doing wrong?

This worked just fine with the 32-bit version of CentOS 6.4.

Is it because some package from the second disk is needed?  Do I have to
create a merged version of the DVDs?  Or is something else wrong?

Screenshot available here:
http://www.deepsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/FrozenInstallx86_64.png

And the VM's defination is here:
http://www.deepsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/c664guest.xml


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On 3/21/2013 3:42 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
> Is it because some package from the second disk is needed?  Do I have to
> create a merged version of the DVDs?  Or is something else wrong?


I put a mirror of this, http://mirror.centos.org/centos-6/6/os/x86_64/ 
on a local http server

then I use the netinstall iso to boot the system or VM and have the 
kickstart file point to the http url to run the install.   if you do a 
pxe boot of the netinstall image, even better.


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At Thu, 21 Mar 2013 20:54:04 -0400 Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>
wrote:
> 
> At Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:04:22 -0700 CentOS mailing list <centos at
centos.org> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On 3/21/2013 3:42 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
> > > Is it because some package from the second disk is needed?  Do I
have to
> > > create a merged version of the DVDs?  Or is something else wrong?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I put a mirror of this, http://mirror.centos.org/centos-6/6/os/x86_64/
> > on a local http server
> > 
> > then I use the netinstall iso to boot the system or VM and have the 
> > kickstart file point to the http url to run the install.   if you do a
> > pxe boot of the netinstall image, even better.
> 
> I created a local O/S repo by 'merging' the two DVD isos (copied
DVD 1
> to directory mounted under /var/www and then copied the contents of the
> Packages directory of the second DVD into the copy of the Packages
> directory) and then used this local repo as the install source.  Same
> thing -- it hangs at selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-195.el6.noarch.  CPU
> busy for awhile, then virtually zero CPU usage.  Is it a memory problem?
> I've only allocated 1gig of RAM to this VM -- is that too little?  Is
> there something 'special' about
> selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-195.el6.noarch? 
OK, I managed to install the VM.  I did a 'Minumal-Desktop' install and
then installed the 300+ additional packages after the 'Minumal-Desktop'
completed and the VM rebooted (I used the package list from the 32-bit
'Development-Workstation' install I did earlier).  I still don't
know
why selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-195.el6.noarch caused the install to
go off into never-never land...  There was no problem doing a
'Development-Workstation' install of the 32-bit version.  My *only*
guess was the 1gig was not enough RAM for selinux-policy-targeted
post-install script with large number of installed packages, but there
were no error messages, so I really don't know what was going on.
> 
> My next option is to just treat this like I did for the Ubuntu VMs: do a
> *native* install on a scratch disk and then copy it over to the lvm
> volume.  This means I will have burn two DVDs... Argggg.
> 
> > 
> > 
> 
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