Opened 8 years ago
Closed 4 years ago
#14844 closed defect (obsolete)
OS X guest periodically freezes with Remote Management enabled
| Reported by: | zigg_ | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | other | Version: | VirtualBox 5.0.10 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | OSX Server | Host type: | Mac OS X |
Description
I maintain VirtualBox support for Tim Sutton's osx-vm-templates (https://github.com/timsutton/osx-vm-templates), which can use Packer to create a Vagrant-compatible OS X system.
When building a new El Capitan box recently under 4.3 (verified up through 5.0.10), I discovered that the resulting box freezes periodically for about 5 seconds every 10 seconds. It seems the entire VM is frozen, since both SSH sessions and the console itself are unresponsive. This is specific to the VirtualBox provider; building the Vagrant box with VMware Fusion using the same artifacts and configuration doesn't exhibit this freezing behavior.
I discovered that I can work around this issue by not enabling Apple's Remote Management service during the first-run installation. I added support to disable this to osx-vm-templates; pass -D DISABLE_REMOTE_MANAGEMENT to prepare_iso when building the DMG.
Let me know if I can be of any help. Tim has been able to reproduce this issue on his system as well, see https://github.com/timsutton/osx-vm-templates/issues/43.
I've written a blog post about building the Vagrant box using osx-vm-templates in case it's useful: http://spin.atomicobject.com/2015/11/17/vagrant-osx/
Closing as obsolete, VirtualBox 6.1 has improved macOS guest support.