Even though I could not find any reference to fd0 in the usual tools,
out of desperation I tried the "blacklist fd0" cure as recommended
elsewhere.
The problem has vanished.
I'm assuming this is some obscure bug in the Gigabyte BIOS.
Thanks
John
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I'm also seeing gparted (V0.12.1) spend 20+ min. Either there are two
very similar problems or this is not directly related to VM ware.
I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 AMD64
Also VBox 4.2.0 r80737 but I have no direct evidence that's related.
I first noticed the problem after the most recent kernal up
