Comments on: CentOS and Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1

By: LK

LK — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:43:41 +0000

Jumping to text mode worked for install, although miss Anaconda. Cent OS 5.2 hung at 99%. Seems MSVS took it upon itself to allocate entire 1 TB disk-space that we only wanted the systems to be expandable to, not reserve that space and format it. Bad Virtual Server…bad.

By: Raj

Raj — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:04:18 +0000

Big thanks my friend. No way I could have ever figured this one out. Thanks again, I really appreciate it.

By: Ido Dubrawsky

Ido Dubrawsky — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:51:41 +0000

Glad to hear that it worked for you. It was a royal pain to figure out. I’m glad someone else benefited from it.

By: Tycen

Tycen — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:37:17 +0000

Thanks! I actually had CentOS 5.1 working in VPC2007 _until_ I tried installing VMAdditions for Linux – then the mouse broke. But, your fix did the trick!

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CentOS and Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:12:12 +0000

[...] Hemmy.net – A source of varied interests wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptCentOS and Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 March 24th, 2008 So I’ve been working on building out a series of virtual machines to play with a variety of things. My goal is to build a bunch of virtual machines using Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1. You might ask why VS2005R2SP1? Well, for one, I work for Microsoft. Another is that I’ve got another machine at home (a 2U VALinux 2200) running CentOS with VMWare Server 1.0.4 already — it needs to be updated to 1.0.5 — but I’ll deal with that later. I want t [...]