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I still scracth my head as to why doing a kernel update of Ubuntu running under Hyper-V on a spinning disk is so horrifically slow.

Define slow please.

For a laugh I picked a random VM (VMWare) at work and ran (I did apt update first):

  # time apt upgrade
  ...
  82 to upgrade, 5 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade
  ...
  real    6m16.015s 
  user    2m38.936s
  sys     0m55.216s
The updates included two client server DB engines (Clickhouse and Postgresql) the fileserving thingie (Samba) and a few other bits. The reboot takes about 90 seconds before the webby interface appears for rspamd.


Specifics,Host OS is Windows 10 Pro,virtual machine is Hyper-V, Guest OS is Ubuntu, Dynamic VHXD, Storage Space Pool with 4 HDD and 1 SSD, Windows Filesystem ReFS.

Only observe this specifically with kernel updates. Everything updates as I would expect on a HDD.

Slow is ~10-20 minutes. Which is why it is faster to migrate the running VM from the Storage pool, onto a single SSD, complete the ubuntu kernel update and migrate back.




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