Trouble installing SLES10SP2 on Desktop 4.0.3846

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Mark Roman

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Hi,

I am trying to install SUSE Enterprise Linux (SLES10SP2) in a virtual machine. I am running Mac OS 10.5.x and using Parallels Desktop 4.0.3846. I created a virtual machine using auto detection and the SLES10SP2 installation image (DVD iso image) 64 bit.

I power the virtual machine on and it freezes at the installation splash screen and does not proceed. After an hour or so I gave up. Tried also with the 32-bit version. No luck. Installations of Fedora 10, 11, and SLES11 all proceed immediately and succeed with no problems.

A bug report to Parallels went unheeded for a month and was cryptically closed. I have reopened it, but was wondering if anyone has had success with SLES10SP2 installs on PD 4.0.x for the Mac, and what steps they took.

cheers,
mark
 
Got a solution

Support got back to me with a solution. The older SLES 10 distribution apparently requires the following advanced setting in the VM configuration. Set this under Configure>Hardware>CPU with advanced settings checkbox enabled:
in the System flags box:

kernel.real_mode_vtx=0

Install proceeds normally from there. Hope this is helpful to others
 
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