VirtualBox and VmWare extremely slow

[debyfan]

Hey,

I'm using Debian jessie, recently, possibly after downloading and installating latest updates VirtualBox (4.3.14 installed via apt-get not virtualbox website) and VmWare (10.0.3) and also I tried Virtualbox 4.3.18 from thier site instead of apt-get, all started to hang and freeze.
In VirtualBox I'm not able to install any new OS, specially windows, it just hangs in the middle of installation in a way I have to hard reset main OS. Same with VmWare, it's just not working, loads the OS, but when you double click on "My Computer" it takes around 4 minutes to open, so in the end I have to kill VmWare too.
About my hardware, totally out of question, 64GB ram, i7-4960X, NVIDIA Titan Black... So that never was and can't be the issue.
I checked several files in /var/log, message, syslog, debug, nothing special. Maybe I'm not "grep"ping right words.

This is so far what I found odd in logs when I run vmware or virtualbox, maybe related to them, maybe not:

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Oct 19 09:56:35 TheUser kernel: [  209.630757] task: ffff880febb8f470 ti: ffff880fce958000 task.ti: ffff880fce958000
Oct 19 09:56:35 TheUser kernel: [  209.630758] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff812b39b6>]  [<ffffffff812b39b6>] memcpy+0x6/0x110
Oct 19 09:56:35 TheUser kernel: [  209.630759] RSP: 0018:ffff880fce95bc90  EFLAGS: 00010202
Oct 19 09:56:35 TheUser kernel: [  209.630760] RAX: ffff880f684d8860 RBX: ffff880fce95be38 RCX: 00000000000007a0
Oct 19 09:56:35 TheUser kernel: [  209.630761] RDX: 00000000000007a0 RSI: ffff881081501a00 RDI: ffff880f684d8860
Oct 19 09:56:35 TheUser kernel: [  209.630762] RBP: 00000000000007a0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff880fce95bc6c
Oct 19 09:56:35 TheUser kernel: [  209.630762] R10: ffff880000000960 R11: 0000000000000007 R12: ffff880fce95bcf8
Oct 19 09:56:35 TheUser kernel: [  209.630763] R13: ffff880fce95bcf4 R14: 00000000000007a0 R15: 0000000000000800
Oct 19 09:56:35 TheUser kernel: [  209.630764] FS:  00007ff3a59dd700(0000) GS:ffff88102fd60000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
Oct 19 09:56:35 TheUser kernel: [  209.630765] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
Oct 19 09:56:35 TheUser kernel: [  209.630766] CR2: ffff881081501a00 CR3: 0000000fd0ffa000 CR4: 00000000001427e0
Oct 19 09:56:35 TheUser kernel: [  209.630767] Stack:
Oct 19 09:56:35 TheUser kernel: [  209.630767]  ffffffffa018e7eb 00000000ffffea00 0000000000000001 ffff880f81503000
Oct 19 09:56:35 TheUser kernel: [  209.630769]  ffffea00364498a8 ffff880fce95be38 ffffffffa018f044 0000000000000001
Oct 19 09:56:35 TheUser kernel: [  209.630770]  ffff880fedbedb00 00007ff3a5832000 ffffffffa018e7eb ffff880fce95be38
Oct 19 09:56:35 TheUser kernel: [  209.630771] Call Trace:
Oct 19 09:56:35 TheUser kernel: [  209.630776]  [<ffffffffa018e7eb>] ? fuse_copy_do+0xbb/0xc0 [fuse]
Oct 19 09:56:35 TheUser kernel: [  209.630780]  [<ffffffffa018f044>] ? fuse_copy_page+0x94/0x640 [fuse]
Oct 19 09:56:35 TheUser kernel: [  209.630782]  [<ffffffffa018e7eb>] ? fuse_copy_do+0xbb/0xc0 [fuse]
Oct 19 09:56:35 TheUser kernel: [  209.630785]  [<ffffffffa018f6e6>] ? fuse_copy_args+0xf6/0x150 [fuse]
Oct 19 09:56:35 TheUser kernel: [  209.630788]  [<ffffffffa019016f>] ? fuse_dev_do_read.isra.14+0x6ef/0x800 [fuse]
Oct 19 09:56:35 TheUser kernel: [  209.630791]  [<ffffffff811dfb7c>] ? fsnotify+0x23c/0x300
Oct 19 09:56:35 TheUser kernel: [  209.630794]  [<ffffffff81094a80>] ? wake_up_state+0x10/0x10
Oct 19 09:56:35 TheUser kernel: [  209.630797]  [<ffffffffa019051d>] ? fuse_dev_read+0x6d/0x80 [fuse]
Oct 19 09:56:35 TheUser kernel: [  209.630799]  [<ffffffff811a495c>] ? do_sync_read+0x5c/0x90
Oct 19 09:56:35 TheUser kernel: [  209.630801]  [<ffffffff811a5163>] ? vfs_read+0x93/0x170
Oct 19 09:56:35 TheUser kernel: [  209.630802]  [<ffffffff811a5d92>] ? SyS_read+0x42/0xa0
Oct 19 09:56:35 TheUser kernel: [  209.630804]  [<ffffffff8150c26d>] ? system_call_fast_compare_end+0x10/0x15
Oct 19 09:56:35 TheUser kernel: [  209.630805] Code: 43 50 88 43 4e 5b c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 e8 03 fc ff ff 48 8b 43 58 48 2b 43 50 88 43 4e eb e6 90 90 90 90 90 90 48 89 f8 48 89 d1 <f3> a4 c3 03 83 e2 07 f3 48 a5 89 d1 f3 a4 c3 20 4c 8b 06 4c 8b 
Oct 19 09:56:35 TheUser kernel: [  209.630818] RIP  [<ffffffff812b39b6>] memcpy+0x6/0x110
Oct 19 09:56:35 TheUser kernel: [  209.630819]  RSP <ffff880fce95bc90>
Oct 19 09:56:35 TheUser kernel: [  209.630820] CR2: ffff881081501a00
Oct 19 09:56:35 TheUser kernel: [  209.630821] ---[ end trace 7d02ff0030b8226a ]---
Oct 19 09:56:35 TheUser kernel: [  209.630823] note: mount.ntfs[972] exited with preempt_count 2

So any ideas? Any suggestions for where to check? Anyone with similar problems?
Thanks

[robert3242]

What the exact problem was originally I can't say. I can say, however, that installing software from other sites and not from Debian's repos is a bad idea and usually leads to a broken system eventually. Adding third-party repos to Debian's is a bad idea too for the same reasons. If Debian meets your needs "out of the box," as it were, great. You're golden. If it doesn't, you're better off to find a distro that does Trying to remake Debian into something it isn't by importing software from outside is not and never has been recommended.

[reinob]

@debyfan,

Are your VM images using a whole partition/disk or are you using files. If the latter, which file system are you using on that partition?

When I started reading your message I thought "Oh, btrfs still beta". But your kernel log shows fuse/ntfs errors.

I hope you are neither using NTFS nor BTRFS for your partition holding the VM images.
Use ext4 and live happily.