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Hi, I'm currently working on my next Linux book, which will be an elementary course about CentOS administration. I'm using VirtualBox for all the installer screenshots. Since CentOS has recently been upgraded to version 7.6, I thought I might as well base all book references on this version. So I downloaded the 7.6 1810 minimal ISO and started a fresh installation in VirtualBox. I'm

...in their language. > > Any suggestions ? > > Cheers, > > Niki There are known issues with VirtualBox and RHEL (therefore CentOS) 7.6. (1) https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=90103 (2) https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=90267 (1) is about the GuestAdditions, so this should not affect the installation. But you were most likely hit by (2). All the details are in that forum thread. In short, this is caused by a bug in the 7.6 kernel (see also https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=15570 ). It is possible that the next update to the kernel has the fix but th...

I have an older quad-core AMD processor that supports hardware virtualization on a motherboard that does not support it in the bios. Eventually I'll swap the mobo out on this box for one that will support hardware virtualization and use qemu-kvm. I prefer kvm because of SELinux and sVirt that protects the host from VM breakout should a VM become hostile. In the meantime, I want to start work

Le 04/01/2019 ? 09:14, Akemi Yagi a ?crit?: > There are known issues with VirtualBox and RHEL (therefore CentOS) 7.6. > > (1) https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=90103 > (2) https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=90267 > > (1) is about the GuestAdditions, so this should not affect the > installation. But you were most likely hit by (2). All the details are > in that forum thread. In short, this is caused by a bug in the 7.6 > kernel (see also https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=15570 ). It is > possible that the next update to the kerne...