CentOS Demo VM - 01:01: invalid checksum 0x89

[Elessar]

Hello

I've just downloaded the CentOS VM 32-bit and am running it on Virtual PC (Windows 7).

On boot up, the virtual machine just crashes. For a second, I see:
"01:01: invalid checksum 0x89"

After which, there are a number of segmentation faults, followed by:

dracut: FATAL: No or emtpy root= argument
dracut: Refusing to continue

Segemtnation fault
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Pid: 1, comm: initi Not tained 2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.i686 #1
Call Trace:
[<c083c3a7>] ? panic+068/0x11c
[<c045a511>] ? do_exit+0x741/0x750
[<c045a55c>] ? do_group_exit+0x3c/0xa0
[<c045a5d1>] ? sys_exit_group+0x11/0x20
[<c0409a9f>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28

Is there a known problem with the VM? I haven't found any documentation that suggests my problem is common though, and I was trying to speed up a trial by downloading the VM. If this is a full-fledged investigation, I might as well build a CentOS box myself.

Thanks in advance!

[slansing]

As far as I have seen this is the only time this error has been spotted in relation to a Nagios VM. From digging around it seems this error spawns from a number of hardware related issues when the VM communicates with the physical machine. Have you tried the 64-bit VM? Does it have the same effect?

[scottwilkerson]

I just tested this virtualpc image and it worked as expected.

One thing to note, make sure you extract the files from the zip before you open nagiosxi.vmc file

[Elessar]

I downloaded the machine twice and failed. Yes I unzipped. Because of limitations of VirtualPC, I couldn't try the 64-bit.

Fortunately VMWare works.

I'm not sure what the problem is, I wonder if it's something to do with my stack - Windows 7 + Virtual PC. However it doesn't matter any more, so time to move on. Thanks for the (moral) support!