Super slow boot on ubuntu vm (up to 15 mins) solved

[ShimSchlong]

Suddenly starting booting super slowly today, no clue why and couldn't find any solution. Would love some assistance

[fth0]

FWIW, there are two unusual long breaks (00:29 to 05:16 and 05:18 to 08.30) in the VBox.log file.

What is "F:"?

[ShimSchlong]

The VM is stored on my "F" volume, I assume that' what you mean

[fth0]

Yes, I know that, but what are the properties of it? Is it a network share, and external HDD, an external SSD, an internal HDD, or what? I'm asking because your symptoms are for example typical for worn storage media.

[ShimSchlong]

Oh ok, yes it's an internal HDD with 5t on it with pretty much only the VM installed there, it always worked fine the change was very sudden

[fth0]

It's just an idea, so you should test your internal HDD or you could try an external SSD for comparison.

[ShimSchlong]

Sorry as I don't know too much about it, but I moved the .vdi file (trough the virtual media manager) to an SSD and it's still super slow (altho it seems faster, still much slower than it was)

[fth0]

If it's not the storage media, then you could investigate on the host what's taking up the time, but there's no easy recipe for how to do that. A typical starting point would be your favorite task manager ...

[Malachi123]

I'm running my Ubuntu VMs on a Linux box, but I was experiencing a similar delay as you after a recent update. Your logs show the same 5-minute delay as mine and at the same spot in the logs so I thought I'd post what solved it on mine, which was simply to update the guest additions in the VM.

Not sure what was broke or what it fixed, but I thought I'd mention it.

[ShimSchlong]

Thanks for the Idea!! had some problems with the headers and had to update Virtual box as well but now it works, boot went from like 10 minutes to 5 seconds