- Nov 26, 2016
- 699
So, I wanted to have a snapshot of a clean VM machine state already made so I don't forget it before malware testing and for some idiotic reason, VirtualBox now takes 5 freaking minutes to boot the VM system where without snapshot, it takes like 10 seconds.
Anyone else experiencing this or how are you guys using it in the first place? I used to use VMware Player before where I just had a backup of a whole VM drive and I just restored the whole image from 7z archive. Which ramped 1TB of writes on my SSD for the videos I've made so far and while I have hundreds of terabytes of writes left, it was entirely unnecessary. But with snapshots in VirtualBox, it's taking so long to boot it's also ridiculous.
Why it takes so damn long to boot if you have snapshot already prepared? It means it'll basically do the same if I make a snapshot before malware testing and I have to reboot the system. Before it was so fast I didn't even bother to pause videos. With such long boots because of snapshots, I'll be forced to and I hate that.
Anyone else experiencing this or how are you guys using it in the first place? I used to use VMware Player before where I just had a backup of a whole VM drive and I just restored the whole image from 7z archive. Which ramped 1TB of writes on my SSD for the videos I've made so far and while I have hundreds of terabytes of writes left, it was entirely unnecessary. But with snapshots in VirtualBox, it's taking so long to boot it's also ridiculous.
Why it takes so damn long to boot if you have snapshot already prepared? It means it'll basically do the same if I make a snapshot before malware testing and I have to reboot the system. Before it was so fast I didn't even bother to pause videos. With such long boots because of snapshots, I'll be forced to and I hate that.