VirtualBox + CentOS Hangs on “NET: Registered protocol family 2″

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31
Jul

I was given a guest VM of CentOS to work with and when I tried to fire it up it would always hang on “NET: Registered protocol family 2″ on each of my computers. I figured there must be some setting to turn on/off and after playing around with I discovered it was the following setting:

Just Enable IO APIC and start the VM again and it should boot with no issues!


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17 Responses to “VirtualBox + CentOS Hangs on “NET: Registered protocol family 2″”

  1. Jason says:
    October 30, 2012 at 9:20 am

    I was having the same exact issue and this got it working for me as well. Thanks!

  2. mehdi says:
    November 8, 2012 at 10:21 am

    Thanks man.

  3. Ken says:
    November 10, 2012 at 3:14 pm

    Thanks so much. Fixed it for me as well!

  4. guguk says:
    November 22, 2012 at 9:36 am

    Thank you..it works

  5. J says:
    December 13, 2012 at 1:40 pm

    Thanks! This is right on! :D

  6. Anonymous says:
    December 15, 2012 at 6:33 pm

    Just wanted to drop by and say thank you! Worked like a charm.

  7. Victor says:
    January 25, 2013 at 3:57 pm

    worked for RHL5.6 32 on Virtual box. Same error same solution.

    Thanks man!!

  8. Vijay says:
    February 15, 2013 at 6:57 am

    Thanks…It is working for me…You saved my time…I encourage you…

  9. Joe says:
    March 10, 2013 at 8:15 pm

    It’s really awesome when you google a problem you’re having and find a result with the exact same problem and a simple, clear solution. Thanks!

  10. MValdez says:
    March 11, 2013 at 6:15 am

    Dude, thanks for sharing the tip. Centos 6 is available since last year, but I still need to do tests for old Centos 5.x servers.

    Regards, MV.

  11. Bhaskar says:
    March 27, 2013 at 8:21 pm

    Thank you, It works like a charm

  12. Hennesey says:
    April 10, 2013 at 10:16 pm

    Worked like a charm…Now it stalls after I select the language and keyboard. :-(

  13. ronald says:
    April 24, 2013 at 9:59 am

    Cheers mate

  14. Carlo says:
    May 2, 2013 at 7:49 am

    Great, now it works!!! :-)
    Thank you!!

  15. Alejandro says:
    June 2, 2013 at 11:22 pm

    Thank you.

  16. Zain says:
    June 14, 2013 at 9:50 am

    THANKS , you saved me a week and irritation!

  17. Scott says:
    June 18, 2013 at 2:04 pm

    Thanks tons.

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