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

[Γιώργος Πάλλας]

On 20/12/14 21:14, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> 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 ?
>
> -- 
> Ritesh Raj Sarraf |http://people.debian.org/~rrs
> Debian - The Universal Operating System

It was 512 MB. I have previously run many times installed debian VMs 
with that much memory. Of course something may have changed lately, 
although I have checked of course with atop that the disk was not busy 
with swap I/O.

G.
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