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Author: Eric Cope
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Subject: Re: Virtualbox installation of RHEL5
That's what it took. Its working flawlessly now!

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Lisa Kachold <>wrote:

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> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Eric Cope <> wrote:
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>> I enabled IO_APIC and it got past that point of hanging. I'll let you know
>> how it goes.
>> Eric
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> Oh Sorry Eric, I didn't read the AMD error message carefully enough.
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> This appears to be a AMD issue and the only way around is by Enabling IO
> APIC:
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> http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=19658
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> Again from the Virtualbox forums! Ask the correct source and Viola!
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>> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Eric Cope <> wrote:
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>>> I tried acpi=off. Attached is the screen shot. Lisa, can you elaborate
>>> regarding the VIA processor? This is on a Core 2 Duo machine.
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>>> thanks,
>>> Eric
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>>> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 5:21 AM, Lisa Kachold <>wrote:
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>>>> Hi Eric:
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>>>> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Eric Cope <> wrote:
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>>>>> Hello all,
>>>>> I am trying to install RHEL5 within a Virtualbox instance on my windows
>>>>> pc. It hangs at this line:
>>>>>
>>>>> NET: Registered protocol family 2
>>>>>
>>>>> Has anyone successfully installed RHEL5 in Virtualbox? What settings
>>>>> did you use?
>>>>> I've attached a screen shot of the hanging line.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Eric
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Try:
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>>>> Under boot:
>>>> type: linux acpi=off
>>>> enter
>>>>
>>>> It can also be due to your VIA CPU - which only VirtualBox developers
>>>> can help you with:
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>>>> http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/370
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