kriston's Journal: CentOS 7 on VMware does not boot

CentOS 7 on VMware does not boot until you change one thing. When creating the new virtual machine, specify that you want to use the Paravirtual device.

After installation, enable the CentOS Plus repository and attempt to install the LsiLogic SAS controller. You can do this by removing the hard drive from the VMware user interface without deleting the volume file. After that, remove the VM from the inventory without deleting any files, then edit the VMX file manually, then re-adding it to the inventory.

Finally

[Z00L00K]

Finally a useful Journal post that ended up on the front page! :)

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[kriston]

I have confusion.

What do you mean?

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[Z00L00K]

Considering that Journal posts from time to time ends up on the front page at Slashdot with content that is totally off track this was a fresh surprise with content that actually did fit Slashdot.

More CentOS 7 configuration changes for VNC

[kriston]

Install TigerVNC:
yum install tigervnc

Follow these tips to get it started (some of this has rather hack instructions that copy files instead of using an API to adjust settings, but that's VNC for you).
http://www.itzgeek.com/how-tos... [itzgeek.com]

Note: You'll probably need to stop the Xvnc started when you ran the vncserver :10 command which the author of that web site says you need to use to set your password (instead of running vncpasswd instead).

Disable SELinux.
Edit /etc/selinux/config
SELINUX=disabled

Upon reboot, your