FS#61250 - [virtualbox] Serious performance regression in 6.0

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Teoh Han Hui (teohhanhui) - Wednesday, 02 January 2019, 15:58 GMT
Last edited by Toolybird (Toolybird) - Sunday, 16 April 2023, 02:00 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Upstream Bugs
Status Closed
Assigned To Christian Hesse (eworm)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 2
Private No

Details

Description:
There is a serious performance regression in virtualbox-6.0.0-1. Downgrading to virtualbox-5.2.20-1 fixes the issue.


Additional info:
virtualbox-6.0.0-1
virtualbox-host-dkms-6.0.0-1


Steps to reproduce:
1. Start a VirtualBox VM.
2. (Hopefully) experience the slowness.

Screencast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y70BwXHfhRA
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Closed by  Toolybird (Toolybird)
Sunday, 16 April 2023, 02:00 GMT
Reason for closing:  None
Additional comments about closing:  Old and stale. If this is still an issue, please report upstream.
Comment by Teoh Han Hui (teohhanhui) - Wednesday, 02 January 2019, 15:58 GMT
Correction: virtualbox-5.2.20-1 -> virtualbox-5.2.22-1
Comment by Teoh Han Hui (teohhanhui) - Wednesday, 02 January 2019, 16:28 GMT
Probably an upstream issue? https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=90824&p=436248&hilit=slow#p436248
Comment by ivruijoha (ivru) - Tuesday, 08 January 2019, 07:44 GMT
Same problem here but only with ubuntu 18.04 guest. With debian 9 guest, everything seems fine.
Comment by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro) - Wednesday, 17 April 2019, 13:03 GMT
Is this still an issue with 6.0.6? They supposedly fixed a lot of issues with the newer versions.
Comment by baggar11 (baggar11) - Wednesday, 24 April 2019, 18:44 GMT
I can confirm it's still an issue on 6.0.6. I've seen the behavior ever since upgrading to v6. I'm seeing random slowness on my Windows 7 VM. The VM will power on and be performant, but will eventually and randomly decide to slow down. Minimizing windows, opening documents, are slow. Only way I can get it to speed up again is to shut the VM down and power it back on.

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