Bug#1106529: Very Slow Countdown in VM

[Steve McIntyre]

Hi!

On Sun, May 25, 2025 at 10:25:31PM +0800, Monty Mai wrote:
>Package: grub2
>Version: 2.06-13+deb12u1
>
>When I create a VM in VMware with RAM larger than 13GB for example 14GB, the
>countdown of 5 seconds takes as long as 60 seconds.
>
>The countdown of 5 seconds is normal when I change the RAM size to less than
>13GB.
>
>I am using Debian 12.11.0-amd64 inside VMware Workstation Pro 16 on Windows 11
>host.

Hmmm, that seems odd. I've just tried and failed to reproduce this
using qemu/kvm and 16G of RAM, so this seems like a VMware-specific
issue. I'm curious: do you see a similar issue if you install another
distro, or using the Debian 13 (Trixie) RC1?

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