Opened 9 years ago
Last modified 9 years ago
#14939 new defect
VM VirtualBox 5.01 on Windows 10 has excessive disk activity when running Debian 7.0.0
| Reported by: | seymour | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | guest additions | Version: | VirtualBox 5.0.10 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | Linux | Host type: | Windows |
Description
Since I have upgraded from 4.2.34 to 5.0.10-104061, the performance of Debian 7.0.0 (40.0 Gb) has gone down significantly. Whenever I resume the saved state, there is a lot of disk activity even when I am doing nothing. The Windows 10 Task Manager indicates disk activity peaking around 30 Mbytes/sec coming from the VirtualBox Manager. A lot of disk activity continues while I am working in a command window in Linux. I have encountered the same issue with Windows 7 (before I upgraded to Windows 10 recently).
I have tried to regress back to 4.2.34, but I am unable to restart the saved state of Debian 7. "Failed to open session for virtual machine debian 7.0.0. Unsupported version 17 of data unit cpum"
Occasionally when I close the Virtual Machine using save state, it gets aborted. When I restart the virtual machine, Debian reboots.
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by , 9 years ago
| Attachment: | debian 7.0.0-2015-12-17-09-55-20.log added |
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comment:1 by , 9 years ago
Did you create a new VM (using the previous disk image) with VBox 5.0.10 or did you use the VM configuration you used with VBox 4.2.34? I'm asking because you assigned 512MB to the guest which is enough for a bare guest but as soon as you use GNOME then 512MB are not enough to satisfy the guest demands.
Also, you say the Windows 10 reports disk activity of the VirtualBox Manager. Are you really talking about the VirtualBox Manager or are you talking about the VM process? I assume the latter. When the disk activity happens, did you monitor the guest disk icon at the bottom of the VM window, does it flash?
comment:2 by , 9 years ago
Thank you.
I have always been using the same VM and merely upgraded VBox to 5.0.10. It is a lot of work to create a new VM, install all the Debian software I use, and copy all my files.
I have now increased the RAM to 1024 Mb and hopefully this should help.
I did not check the guest icon light. The disk drive was making a lot of noise. The response of Debian was slower and I determined from Windows 10 Task Manager that the VirtualBox process was putting the demands on the hard drive.
I have upgraded to 5.0.12. I will keep you posted if I am encountering more problems.
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