RHEL 7 installation doesn't start in Virtual Box

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Dears,

I'm trying to install RHEL 7.1 evaluation version (iso file) on Oracle Virtualbox (4.3.28), but after selecting "Install RHEL 7.1" Virtual box screen just goes blank. Please see the attached image.
Here are some options used in Virtual box:

General:
OS: RedHat (32 bit)
System:
Base memory: 1024 MB

Storage:
Controller: IDE
IDE secondary master, [optical drive]
Sata port 0, redhat.vdi

Kindly assist me with this problem. Please let me know if you need any more info.

Thanks and Regards
Barani

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R. Hinton's picture Guru 6827 points
7 July 2015 7:02 PM

Hi, I noticed RHEL 7.1 is only availabe in x86_64 architecture and not 32 bit.
- Make sure to configure your system for 64-bit within the virtualbox virtual system.
- If you have not already done so, go to the BIOS of your system and make sure virtualization is enabled, quite often the default from the computer manufacturer is disabled
- Do a sha256sum (somehow, you're probably using windows) of the ISO file to see if it is corrupted or not (it happens occasionally), and if required, re-download the RHEL 7.1 ISO file again, and use the Binary (not boot disk) to load the system.

RHEL 7.1 Binary DVD  SHA-256 Checksum:
3685468ec6cdcb70dfc85ebbc164da427dc2d762644c3c2ee1520f4f661c15ce
MM Community Member 20 points
1 May 2017 3:57 PM

Hi,

Just one question is virtualization is mandatory for installation RHEL 7.3. My system dose not support virtualization. I wan to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.3 on Intel(R) Core 2 DUO T6500 2.10Ghz. my hardware configuration is RAM: 8 GB, Hard disk: 350gb, CPU: Intel(R) Core 2 DUO T6500 2.10Ghz.

My system does not support Intel-VT. Will the above configuration support for this installations.

SS Newbie 5 points
1 May 2017 1:45 AM

I am having the same issue. Trying to install a red hat ISO into virtual box. I downloaded the rhel-server-7.3-ppc64-boot and set it to the optical drive of the VM and it won't read it. I have subsequently created VMs for Ubuntu and Fedora, pointed the CD ROM to the ISO file and they installed upon booting. Any idea what it would be? The other VMs are working fine. I even downloaded it twice to make sure it wasn't a corrupt ISO. Also tried downloading 7.2. No joy. Thanks

Swapnil Jain's picture Active Contributor Community Member 85 points
1 May 2017 7:18 AM

rhel-server-7.3-ppc64-boot is for Power PC not for intel 64bit, you will have to download it for x86_64

MM Community Member 20 points
1 May 2017 3:52 PM

Hi, I want to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.3 on Intel(R) Core 2 DUO T6500 2.10Ghz. my hardware configuration is RAM: 8 GB, Hard disk: 350gb, CPU: Intel(R) Core 2 DUO T6500 2.10Ghz.

My system does not support Intel-VT. Will the above configuration support for this installations.

Chris Scarff's picture Active Contributor 252 points
26 May 2017 1:35 PM

When using host-based hypervisors its quite necessary to have a system that does support virtualization technology. I think many hypervisors will alert users of that problem, but maybe not all virt distros.

Good luck.

AG Newbie 5 points
3 November 2017 12:57 AM

I too faced same issue.I changed General settings->Basic->Version to 64 bit and started my machine it proceeded with installation.Try this out.

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