Troubleshooting help with VBOXADD.SERVICE?
Posted: 29. Sep 2020, 22:23
I have newly created Linux Mint 20 Xfce 64-bit guest installed on version 6.1.14 (and using GA from 6.1.14 extension pack), and it boots very slowly - about 3 minutes.
systemd-analyze blame gives the first item: 1min 15.249s vboxadd.service
This service is for the guest additions...?
The guest additions are working well (bidirectional clipboard, shared folders, mouse integration, screen resolution resize).
I am not familiar with linux - this guest is so I can learn - and I'm lost as to why vboxadd.service is taking so long to start up? Days of googling has not yielded anything useful so far. I found a few posts here and also on Linux Mint forums but none have helped this.
Any help and info to troubleshoot and resolve this is appreciated. Kind regards.
TLDR;
More details, in case useful:
Running version 6.1.14 on Win7 Pro SP1 64-bit host, with 6.1.14 extension pack installed. I only run one VM at a time on this host as it is older hardware. Box is used for nothing else except VMs. Core2Duo E6850 3ghz, ICH9 chipset, 256MB radeon HD graphics card, 8G ram, plenty of sata disk space.
I have several older windows guests on this system (XP, Win7, Win8.1), all upgraded to the 6.1.14 version of guest additions. All use shared clipboard, shared folders, mouse integration just like the linux guest and all are working fine too. These still boot very fast, well under a minute, usually around 30 seconds.
Primary disk is same size for all VMs including linux: Fixed size 20G virutal disk (vmdk). I tried a new linux mint guest on a dynamic 20G disk to see if that made a difference, it did not.
The linux VM is using VMSVGA with 3D acceleration marked (I have also tried VboxSVGA and VMSVGA without 3D marked). 128MB graphics, 3G of memory, 4G swap FILE, 1 CPU, PS/2 mouse, IDE optical and SATA disk controllers. Using PIIX3 chipset though I also tried ICH9 with no change.
USB, audio are not marked in the linux guest.
(Host-only networking, USB, and python are not installed from Virtualbox installer, I have not installed them in all prior versions going back many years).
I think I have the defaults on most everything else in the linux guest VM. Made sure I selected linux 64-bit during VM create.
systemd-analyze blame gives the first item: 1min 15.249s vboxadd.service
This service is for the guest additions...?
The guest additions are working well (bidirectional clipboard, shared folders, mouse integration, screen resolution resize).
I am not familiar with linux - this guest is so I can learn - and I'm lost as to why vboxadd.service is taking so long to start up? Days of googling has not yielded anything useful so far. I found a few posts here and also on Linux Mint forums but none have helped this.
Any help and info to troubleshoot and resolve this is appreciated. Kind regards.
TLDR;
More details, in case useful:
Running version 6.1.14 on Win7 Pro SP1 64-bit host, with 6.1.14 extension pack installed. I only run one VM at a time on this host as it is older hardware. Box is used for nothing else except VMs. Core2Duo E6850 3ghz, ICH9 chipset, 256MB radeon HD graphics card, 8G ram, plenty of sata disk space.
I have several older windows guests on this system (XP, Win7, Win8.1), all upgraded to the 6.1.14 version of guest additions. All use shared clipboard, shared folders, mouse integration just like the linux guest and all are working fine too. These still boot very fast, well under a minute, usually around 30 seconds.
Primary disk is same size for all VMs including linux: Fixed size 20G virutal disk (vmdk). I tried a new linux mint guest on a dynamic 20G disk to see if that made a difference, it did not.
The linux VM is using VMSVGA with 3D acceleration marked (I have also tried VboxSVGA and VMSVGA without 3D marked). 128MB graphics, 3G of memory, 4G swap FILE, 1 CPU, PS/2 mouse, IDE optical and SATA disk controllers. Using PIIX3 chipset though I also tried ICH9 with no change.
USB, audio are not marked in the linux guest.
(Host-only networking, USB, and python are not installed from Virtualbox installer, I have not installed them in all prior versions going back many years).
I think I have the defaults on most everything else in the linux guest VM. Made sure I selected linux 64-bit during VM create.