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Apologies if posted previously but I did search... I am enjoying VB on a Windows 7 host with 8Gb RAM. I have 3 guests configured IWin XP, Win 7 & Ubuntu). Up to and including VB V4.1.8 the VB program comes up within a second or two - very quick.

However, after upgrading up from V4.1.8 (and every version since then) it takes a good 30-40 seconds before the VB Manager screen appears. After VB Manager is up and running, everything is good. No other known chnages to configuration or environment.

Even if after running my guests I close everything down and restart VB, it still takes the same amount of time for VB Manager to appear so having had the program run prior does not help either.

Any thoughts?

Thanks in anticipation.

run ProcessMonitor in background and look what is slow. You can save the log as PML, zip it and upload it so that the Virtualbox Developers can take a look at it.

It sounds like the behaviour of voluntarily installed malware to me (a.k.a. resident antivirus).

Thank you for answering.

I've uploaded the PML file in a zip attachment. I started the Procmon capture, then started VirtualBox and then stopped the capture. Good point about the AV - it is true I have Lavasoft's Adaware on the host, but I also had it before the VirtualBox V4.1.8 upgrade too
My wife still has VB V4.1.8 on her laptop but runs Norton AV without issue.
Let me know how you interpret the PML file - Thank you so much!

I'm not sure the file gets uploaded - the form seems to refresh after a couple of minutes. The attached file is 13.2Mb

These forums have a file size limit, normally 128K (note: not MB), though for some file types you are allowed a whole 256K. If you want to attach a 13MB file then you'll have to find someone else to host it! And frankly I wouldn't bother doing that either: if you want busy people to spend time and other resources looking at your 13MB of log data then you'll first have to convince them that there is a VirtualBox problem to investigate.

upload it to Dropbox, SkyDrive or what ever you use and post a link here.

Andre.Ziegler wrote:upload it to Dropbox, SkyDrive or what ever you use and post a link here.

I've uploaded the same procmon file in 3 formats at 4shared:

http://www.4shared.com/file/sXo5Kvi-/St ... alBox.html - raw Procmon file

http://www.4shared.com/rar/aVlULGvU/Sta ... alBox.html - compressed with WINRAR to 5Mb

http://www.4shared.com/zip/d3W-QTP_/Sta ... alBox.html - compressed with Zip to 7Mb

The first reference to Virtualbox is timed at 11:55:56 and the last one is at 11:57:07
Here is what I did. I set Procmon to output to a separate file (not pagefile) and started it. I clicked on the VirtualBox icon in the quicklaunch toolbar and waited for the main open screen to appear. Then I stopped Procmon and saved the output.

Thanks.