[ale] Issue with Virtual Box 4.2.4 on Lubuntu 12.04 encrypted hard drive

[Jonathan Meek]

Eric,

I will give that a try this evening when I get home. With my luck, I will
fire up the computer and it will work just fine. Also, I was restoring my
backups from deja dup, which is the default backup system in Ubuntu, at the
same time I was trying to create the VM hard drive.

Regards,

Jonathan
On Nov 21, 2012 3:51 PM, "Erik Mathis" <erik at mathists.com> wrote:

>
> I run 12.04+vbox with encrypted homes on my laptop. I did move the vbox
> disks outside of my home dir because I assumed there is a performance hit.
> All night to make a small 100G file should not be. There is something else
> wrong here (assuming sata2) or something else is sucking up all the IO. My
> first guess for the missing image might be because of rsync's with the
> --delete flag (backups)? You may want to run bonnie++ on the disk and see
> if something looks wrong. btw,
>
> emathis at emathis-lappy:~$ time dd if=/dev/zero of=123 bs=10240 count=102400
> 102400+0 records in
> 102400+0 records out
> 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 8.84721 s, 119 MB/s
> real    0m9.103s
> user    0m0.044s sys
> 0m8.397s
> you should be close to that. 100G should take about 15 min to create
> according to the real time above.
>
> http://timf.anansi-web.com/**openfiler/benchmark.html<http://timf.anansi-web.com/openfiler/benchmark.html>
> http://sys-log.bencane.com/**2012/08/troubleshooting-high-**
> io-wait-in-linux/<http://sys-log.bencane.com/2012/08/troubleshooting-high-io-wait-in-linux/>
>
> anyway just my 2 cents!
>
> -Erik-
>
>> On 11/21/2012 03:00 PM, Jonathan Meek wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> I just recently switched to Lubuntu 12.04 on my main computer at home
>>> because I like LXDE over Unity and LXDE lets me use my computer like a
>>> computer instead of a tablet. I downloaded Virtual Box 4.2.4 and
>>> installed it on my system. When I went to create a VM, I chose to
>>> create a static allocated hard drive. It took Virtual Box overnight to
>>> complete the process of creating a 100 GB virtual hard drive. When I
>>> awoke this morning to start the VM, VirtualBox told it couldn't find
>>> the hard drive. Checked the default folder for the VM hard drives and
>>> it was gone. No trace, no nothing.
>>>
>>> So I have no clue what went wrong. Here's some other
>>> information/thoughts in case it is helpful:
>>>
>>>      --Installed KVM and it had the same issue of creating a VDI
>>>
>>>      --When I installed Lubnutu, I used the default option to encrypt
>>> the hard drive and also encrypt the home folder
>>>               --I am wondering if the home folder is not de-crypting
>>> correctly, but I can see everything and access everything so maybe not
>>>
>>>      --Default settings other than size of the hard drive and type of
>>> hard drive were used in creating the hard drive.
>>>
>>>      --I am trying to create a VM for Windows 7
>>>             --yeah, I know that's my first problem but in order to get
>>> out of doing QA at my job, I need to learn .NET & C#. Mono is a no-go
>>> install on my system for
>>>               some reason. Might need to build from source but that
>>> might only get my knowledge base apart of the way given how heavy some
>>> of the stuff developed is
>>>               in .NET
>>>
>>>      --If screenshots are needed, then I can supply them on the errors
>>> I am seeing. Didn't want to fill people's emails with screenshots.
>>> That's what Flickr/Facebook
>>>        is for :D
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any help, thoughts, feedback, complaints, or
>>> gripes.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Jonathan
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