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I'm using asterisk and trying to implement a test environment for testing asterisk functionalities on VM. I'm using VMware workstation 8 and trying to install AsteriskNOW 6.12-64 bit vi iso downloaded for following location.

http://www.asterisk.org/downloads/asterisknow

Now I'm stuck in the middle of:

Installing VMware Tools,please wait... mount : special device /dev/hda does not exist mount : block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read only

after that forever waiting.

This is taking too long and never ending. I tried to install several times and the result is same. I also noticed that the starting the install the following error is displayed, however it lets you to continue:

Unsupported hardware detected.

This hardware (or a combination thereof ) is not supported by centos. {note that I'm using a typical VM in VMware}

I tried browsing google for a solution but couldn't find a solution. Please help and let me know if this is the best way to start with asterisk.

Brian Tompsett - 汤莱恩
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Looks like it is trying to install VMWare tools into the VM. VMWare tools are optional and used for convinience only.

Try searching for a setting to disable this.

shanmuga
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  • I tried that too ,and got the same result. May be its the package comes with astriknow. I'm trying to install centos separately and compile the astrisk inside. – Gayanmyte Jun 20 '15 at 08:32
  • I got this solved. actually it was not stuck. system was installing some of the binaries from the internet. It was to slow and after a long time the upgrade has been completed. Finally got my system working. – Gayanmyte Jun 20 '15 at 10:48
  • Were you able identify if this was due to astrisk binaries, VMWare tools binaries or OS? – shanmuga Jun 23 '15 at 09:21
  • The files were downloaded from the asterisk repository usa, so i suspect there were asterisk libraries or binaries. – Gayanmyte Sep 23 '15 at 06:22