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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I was having the same exact issue and this got it working for me as well. Thanks!
Thanks man.
Thanks so much. Fixed it for me as well!
Thank you..it works
Thanks! This is right on! 😀
Just wanted to drop by and say thank you! Worked like a charm.
worked for RHL5.6 32 on Virtual box. Same error same solution.
Thanks man!!
Thanks…It is working for me…You saved my time…I encourage you…
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!
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.
Thank you, It works like a charm
Worked like a charm…Now it stalls after I select the language and keyboard. 🙁
Cheers mate
Great, now it works!!! 🙂
Thank you!!
Thank you.
THANKS , you saved me a week and irritation!
Thanks tons.
Thanks a lot.
Thanx. You saved my day
solution saved my time….keep it up
Thanks, I was having a similar problem with the Elastix VOIP software. This was really helpful!
Thank you! Helped me, too!
thank you very much
Thanks for saving me time to figure this one out!
Thanx!!!
thanks, worked for to me,
Great post, thanks mate.
Worked like a charm. Many thanks
I am trying to install Oracle enterprise Linux on Oracle virtual box. It is getting hung up the error Net : Registered protocol family 2
After changing the above settings it still hung up .. 🙁
Please advice here ….
@Santosh – Sorry but I am not Virtual Box technical support. If what I wrote doesn’t help you then you’ll have to keep searching for the answers.
Great. Thanks Mate
How do you enable the system setting?For me it is showing like a watermark.i am not able to click anything.
Thanks a lot !!
Thanks lot…its working now
It Works 😀 ,Thanks
Thank you!
You are dude brother thanks alot
thanks, i have same problem….
good job my friend 🙂
Had same prob with RH enterprise linux. Solved thanks
Worked but i had also need to boot with command “linux noapic”
anyways thlks 😀
gracias, lleve tiempo tratando de solucionarlo, desinstale programas, pero la solucion era tal como dijiste
Thank you it works !!!