Linux Guest VM - slow boot time due to guest addition despite software upgrades

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Problem: I have multiple VMs on my Windows 7 laptop. There are 2 RHEL7.4 VMs, both updated with same repos and both installed with same version of Guest Additions. One of the two always boots very slow, like 2-3 mins. The slow boot time is due to vboxadd.service.

Base OS : Win7 x64
GuestOS : RHEL7.4
VBox: 5.2.4

I have been facing this problem for last few months. I have updated both the OS and VBox softwares to no avail. I suspect this has something to do with the virtualdisk and I am at a loss of ideas how to perform maintenance on my virtual hard drives.

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[root@]# lvs
  LV      VG  Attr       LSize  Pool Origin Data%  Meta%  Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert
  lv_root VG1 -wi-ao---- 42.50g                                                    
  lv_swap VG1 -wi-ao----  6.00g  

[root@]# swapon -s
Filename				Type		Size	Used	Priority
/dev/dm-1                              	partition	6291452	0	-1

[root@]# free -m
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           5819         659        4675          44         484        4864
Swap:          6143           0        6143