[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#773609: virtualbox: freezes and reads disk forever with fresh install of a debian jessie VM

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

On 12/21/2014 12:23 AM, Giorgos Pallas wrote:
> This is an issue on both 4.3.18 (current testing vb version) and 4.3.20 to
> which I upgraded.
>
> There is a problem with installing debian on a new VM.
>
> I downloaded jessie's small installer
> (debian-jessie-DI-b2-i386-netinst.iso) and installed debian. The install
> completed (I did a minimum install: just standard utilities and
> openssh-server selected at tasksel).
>
> The VM rebooted after completing the install and then without any command
> the VM froze and the disk reads without stopping. I let it over 20 minutes
> and it was still reading. During that time the VM console was frozen as well
> as the Virtualbox manager. I killed both and then tried to start the VM
> again: Both are frozen, showing the dialog box saying: starting virtual
> machine, and the disk reads without stop.
>
> I tried the whole procedure over 3 times: Everytime the same. I even tried
> to snapshot the machine during the new install. I took during the install
> several snapshots without problem, but after the dialog of setting up
> partitions etc I pressed the snap button and the VM as well as the VB
> manager froze, and the disk started reading without stopping.
>
> I don't think its a disk fault (I/O errors etc) because kernel would show
> something and in addition I tried reading the VM file (vdi) and it is read
> without problem.

How much memory have you allocated to the Guest VM ?

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Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs
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