fedora on virtualbox

[Rick Stevens]

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 -->
<VirtualBox xmlns="http://www.innotek.de/VirtualBox-settings" 
version="1.2-linux">

   <Machine OSType="linux26" lastStateChange="2008-05-21T19:38:44Z" 
name="CentOS-51" uuid="{563823a7-1304-4acc-2394-c5467cf048eb}">
     <ExtraData>
       <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/SaveMountedAtRuntime" value="yes"/>
       <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/LastWindowPostion" 
value="341,187,724,470"/>
       <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"/>
       <RemoteDisplay authTimeout="5000" authType="null" enabled="false" 
port="3389"/>
       <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>
         <Adapter MACAddress="080027BF1E07" cable="true" enabled="true" 
slot="0" type="Am79C973">
           <NAT/>
         </Adapter>
         <Adapter MACAddress="0800271D400E" cable="true" enabled="false" 
slot="1" type="Am79C973"/>
         <Adapter MACAddress="080027A5DEF5" cable="true" enabled="false" 
slot="2" type="Am79C973"/>
         <Adapter MACAddress="080027D4DBC0" cable="true" enabled="false" 
slot="3" type="Am79C973"/>
       </Network>
       <Uart>
         <Port IOBase="0x3f8" IRQ="4" enabled="false" 
hostMode="Disconnected" slot="0"/>
         <Port IOBase="0x3f8" IRQ="4" enabled="false" 
hostMode="Disconnected" slot="1"/>
       </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>
       <HardDiskAttachment bus="ide0" device="master" 
hardDisk="{d226b700-c69b-4536-1eb9-a174cf8f9f54}"/>
     </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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