I'm just trying to install Ubuntu 14.04 in VMWare Player. It has a single huge (300 GB) partition and so I expect it to take some time, but after a few minutes, this message came
I'm unsure what it's doing now. Zeroing 300 GB surely takes some time, but the current disk usage is according to du only 11 GB and it doesn't change since maybe an hour. Nautilus reports 3.8 GB (I don't care why these numbers differ).
I wonder where the WRITE SAME failed comes from. All I find out is that it happens with some RAID controllers, but the partition I placed the VM on is an encrypted software RAID partition and IMHO the guest OS should care (or even know it).
The VMWare Player uses some 40% CPU and iostat 30 shows
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
4.85 0.67 10.66 0.17 0.00 83.65
Device: tps Blk_read/s Blk_wrtn/s Blk_read Blk_wrtn
sda 11.07 0.00 113.60 0 3408
sdb 0.80 0.00 8.27 0 248
sdc 0.80 0.00 8.27 0 248
sde 0.73 0.00 5.87 0 176
sdd 0.73 0.00 5.87 0 176
md0 0.97 0.00 7.73 0 232
dm-0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
dm-1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
dm-2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
dm-3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
dm-4 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
dm-5 0.97 0.00 7.73 0 232
dm-6 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
I guess it means that nothing's happening as the only activity is on sda which contains the host's / and /home, but not the RAID.
An old 10.04 VM runs without problems on the same system.
What's going on? What should I do?
