install of centos 7 fails - dhcp spinning - "no operating system" info box appears

[KlausKobald]

I fail right at the very first steps:

I downloaded a centOS7 img file

I click "NEW"

I drag the img file to the window

I select Centos7 64 bit

I select "old bios"

terminal displays a MAC address and "DHCP - / "  (spinning)

after a while it says:

no operating system

I also tried with EFI

which brings up a blue boot screen

same thing there "no operating system"

to me it seems as if the img has no compatible bootloader.

Are there special images for vmware to be used?

[Alex_Romeo]

Hi,

you need to download the ".ISO" file.

Download CentOS 7 - DVD ISO Images

• http://mirrors.prometeus.net/centos/7.7.1908/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1908.iso
• http://it.centos.contactlab.it/7.7.1908/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1908.iso
• http://centos.mirror.garr.it/centos/7.7.1908/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1908.iso
• http://mirror.crazynetwork.it/centos/7.7.1908/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1908.iso

Which VMware product are you installing it on?

ARomeo

[KlausKobald]

That´s what i did:

CentOS-7-aarch64-Minimal-1908.iso

[KlausKobald]

I downloaded this

http://centos-altarch.mirror.liteserver.nl/7.7.1908/isos/aarch64/CentOS-7-aarch64-Minimal-1908.iso

installing on VMWare Fusion 11.5 for Mac

[dariusd]

The "aarch64" architecture is for 64-bit ARM processors, and can not run on your host without using an ARM CPU emulator.

VMware Fusion is capable of running the x86_64 build (preferred, and will make best use of your host's CPU) or the i386 build (old and limited hardware support).

I would suggest downloading the x86_64 build of CentOS, and trying again with that.

Thanks,

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Darius

[KlausKobald]

ha! that makes sense.

I did not think of that.

before failing again:

will CentOS 8 work with VM Fusion 11.5?

in the selector box CentOS 8 is not available.

Download - CentOS Wiki

so, is 7 (1908 ) the right choice?

[dariusd · Accepted solution]

The VMware Compatibility Guide​ says that CentOS 8.x is supported as of Fusion 11.5.  Interesting that it doesn't show up in the guest OS list... If you want to install CentOS 8, I would try choosing either CentOS 7 64-bit or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 64-bit... those are the most similar to CentOS 8 64-bit.  Alternatively, the 1908 release of CentOS 7 x86_64 should be fine too.

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Darius

[KlausKobald]

thank you - I go with 7 now and will upgrade in a few months.