Vagrant build on Windows 11 is SLOW

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• Building my Vagrant VM on MacOS aarch64 is incredibly fast.
• Building the VM on Vagrant with Virtualbox on MacOS x86 is something I need to test again.
• Building the VM on Windows 11 on my AMD Ryzen is incredibly slow. Much slower than it used to be.

The problem is mostly in Docker on the Ubuntu VM. Pulling images and verifying the hashes is crazy slow. Which is weird, because based on top output, the VM is doing almost nothing.

[unixerius]

I have done a few tests, I assume this problem is caused by VirtualBox's continued clash with Windows 10/11 virtualization.

These are the times reported to complete a Juice Shop "npm install". All have six CPU cores and 8192 MB RAM.

• Ubuntu 22.04 on aarch64 (Macbook Air M2) with Qemu: 7 minutes.
• Ubuntu 22.04 on amd64 (Asus Zenbook) with Hyper-V on Win11: 6 minutes.
• Ubuntu 22.04 on amd64 (Asus Zenbook) with Virtualbox on Win11: 23 minutes.

To make life easier and better for our students we will need to provide different lab guides and Vagrantfiles.

• MacOS x86_64 with Virtualbox
• MacOS aarch64 with Qemu
• MacOS aarch64 with UTM
• Windows 10/11 with Hyper-V (requires administrator Powershell)
• Windows 10/11 with Virtualbox (with warning for slow performance)
• Linux with VirtualBox

[unixerius]

More comparison, this time of time docker build -t juicy . in the Juice Shop 15.0.0 repo.

• Ubuntu 22.04 on aarch64 (Macbook Air M2) with Qemu: 3m34
• Ubuntu 22.04 on amd64 (Asus Zenbook) with Hyper-V on Win11: 9m18
• Ubuntu 22.04 on amd64 (Asus Zenbook) with Virtualbox on Win11: 16m13

Interesting that the Docker build was noticeably slower on amd64 compared to the M2, when the npm install was comparable between Qemu@aarch64 and Hypber-V@amd64.