Hi, VMWare has been a great tool for me to experiment with CentOS 3 and CentOS 4. However, I'm running into issues with CentOS 5. First, it is *extremely* slow to boot (as in it takes over an hour to boot CentOS 5 on a machine that boots CentOS 3 & 4 in less than one minute). Then, after an hour of slowly watching the messages go by on the console and the CPU of the host machine pegged at 100%, I get this error: VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0) NOT_REACHED F(562):1742 A log file is available in ... I have done a "minimal install" of CentOS 5 (all checkboxes in the category/task selection screen are unchecked -- so to X-Windows involved) and the virtual machine has 750MB of RAM. I'm using VMWare Workstation 4.5 and the host OS is Windows XP Pro. I have not been able to install the VMWare tool since I can't get it to finish booting. Has anyone else run into this? I have seen some discussion on the list about VMWare and CentOS 5, but nothing that seemed to match what I'm running into. Thanks, Kennedy
gjgowey at tmo.blackberry.net
2007-Jun-05 12:27 UTC
[CentOS] CentOS 5 Issues Booting Under VMWare
This is just a guess, but I'm thinking that it doesn't like the kernel you're using. If you have a choice between a 2.6 and a 2.4 in the install options go with the 2.4. Geoff Sent from my BlackBerry wireless handheld. -----Original Message----- From: hkclark at gmail.com Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 08:19:24 To:"CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> Subject: [CentOS] CentOS 5 Issues Booting Under VMWare Hi, VMWare has been a great tool for me to experiment with CentOS 3 and CentOS 4. However, I'm running into issues with CentOS 5. First, it is *extremely* slow to boot (as in it takes over an hour to boot CentOS 5 on a machine that boots CentOS 3 & 4 in less than one minute). Then, after an hour of slowly watching the messages go by on the console and the CPU of the host machine pegged at 100%, I get this error: VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0) NOT_REACHED F(562):1742 A log file is available in ... I have done a "minimal install" of CentOS 5 (all checkboxes in the category/task selection screen are unchecked -- so to X-Windows involved) and the virtual machine has 750MB of RAM. I'm using VMWare Workstation 4.5 and the host OS is Windows XP Pro. I have not been able to install the VMWare tool since I can't get it to finish booting. Has anyone else run into this? I have seen some discussion on the list about VMWare and CentOS 5, but nothing that seemed to match what I'm running into. Thanks, Kennedy _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
hkclark at gmail.com spake the following on 6/5/2007 5:19 AM:> Hi, > > VMWare has been a great tool for me to experiment with CentOS 3 and > CentOS 4. However, I'm running into issues with CentOS 5. First, it > is *extremely* slow to boot (as in it takes over an hour to boot > CentOS 5 on a machine that boots CentOS 3 & 4 in less than one > minute). Then, after an hour of slowly watching the messages go by on > the console and the CPU of the host machine pegged at 100%, I get this > error: > > VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0) > NOT_REACHED F(562):1742 > A log file is available in ... > > I have done a "minimal install" of CentOS 5 (all checkboxes in the > category/task selection screen are unchecked -- so to X-Windows > involved) and the virtual machine has 750MB of RAM. I'm using VMWare > Workstation 4.5 and the host OS is Windows XP Pro. I have not been > able to install the VMWare tool since I can't get it to finish > booting. > > Has anyone else run into this? I have seen some discussion on the > list about VMWare and CentOS 5, but nothing that seemed to match what > I'm running into. > > Thanks, > KennedyI'm doing an install right now. I'll let you know my results. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!
On 6/5/07, hkclark at gmail.com <hkclark at gmail.com> wrote:> Hi, > > VMWare has been a great tool for me to experiment with CentOS 3 and > CentOS 4. However, I'm running into issues with CentOS 5. First, it > is *extremely* slow to boot (as in it takes over an hour to boot > CentOS 5 on a machine that boots CentOS 3 & 4 in less than one > minute). Then, after an hour of slowly watching the messages go by on > the console and the CPU of the host machine pegged at 100%, I get this > error: > VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0) > NOT_REACHED F(562):1742 > A log file is available in ... > > I have done a "minimal install" of CentOS 5 (all checkboxes in the > category/task selection screen are unchecked -- so to X-Windows > involved) and the virtual machine has 750MB of RAM. I'm using VMWare > Workstation 4.5 and the host OS is Windows XP Pro. I have not been > able to install the VMWare tool since I can't get it to finish > booting. >Ok I was first going to say I could not replicate this.. but then saw that the host OS is Windows XP which I do not have access to. However, vmware workstation only supports the 2.6 kernel on Workstation 5.0 and above. Early 2.6 kernels are known to work on Workstation-4.5 on some hardware but a lot of systems had the problems you are listing when trying to run Workstation-4.x with CentOS-4. I think you are either going to need to update to a newer version of workstation (looking at wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware OS support 64-Bit Solaris 10 1/06 (Update 1) and Solaris 10 6/06 (Update 2) fail with a triple fault on Intel Pentium M-based systems Merom, Woodcrest, and Conroe. A Sun Microsystems' blog has published a workaround for this issue. Older versions of VMware seem unable to run newer versions of Linux (2.4-series kernels seem to panic when run on VMware 2.x; and 2.6-series kernels, when run on VMware 3.x, give a protection error). VMware Workstation in Nov 2006 reached version 5.5.3, which supports these newer operating systems and kernels. However, the latest versions of the 2.6.x kernel require a patch to use all the VMware features \u2014 even when using VMware Workstation 5.0 or 5.5. This patch, freely available as vmware-any-any-updatexxx (as of 2007-04-16: update109), comes via the Czech Technical University. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"
pctech at mybellybutton.com
2007-Jun-05 21:48 UTC
[CentOS] Re: CentOS 5 Issues Booting Under VMWare
Scott Silva spake the following on 6/5/2007 8:26 AM:> hkclark at gmail.com spake the following on > 6/5/2007 5:19 AM: >> Hi, >> >> VMWare has been a great tool for me to experiment with CentOS 3 and >> CentOS 4. However, I'm running into issues with CentOS 5. First, it >> is *extremely* slow to boot (as in it takes over an hour to boot >> CentOS 5 on a machine that boots CentOS 3 & 4 in less than one >> minute). Then, after an hour of slowly watching the messages go by on >> the console and the CPU of the host machine pegged at 100%, I get this >> error: >> >> VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0) >> NOT_REACHED F(562):1742 >> A log file is available in ... >> >> I have done a "minimal install" of CentOS 5 (all checkboxes in the >> category/task selection screen are unchecked -- so to X-Windows >> involved) and the virtual machine has 750MB of RAM. I'm using VMWare >> Workstation 4.5 and the host OS is Windows XP Pro. I have not been >> able to install the VMWare tool since I can't get it to finish >> booting. >> >> Has anyone else run into this? I have seen some discussion on the >> list about VMWare and CentOS 5, but nothing that seemed to match what >> I'm running into. >> >> Thanks, >> Kennedy > I'm doing an install right now. I'll let you know my results. > >Disregard my input. I am running VMWare 5.4 not 4.5, so my tests are meaningless to you. ---------------------------------------------- I am running the free VMWare Server 1.0.3 and CentOS 5 seems to load fine for me. It loads up in a reasonable amount of time given that it is running on a workstation in a virtual session. What is the configuration of your VMWare session? I set mine up using mostly default choices. I did change the "system type" To RHEL 4 and I bumped the default RAM up to 512M. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos