Thanks to one of the vbox guys, it happens because the vdi are stored in the home folder, on my machine it is encrypted. If the vdi is created in /tmp/ and then moved to ~/.Virtualbox/HardDisks/ then it is fine.
** Summary changed: - virtualbox-ose and VBoxManage hang when creating hard disk + virtualbox-ose and VBoxManage hang when creating hard disk with encrypted home directory ** Changed in: virtualbox-ose (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium -- virtualbox-ose and VBoxManage hang when creating hard disk with encrypted home directory https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/662388 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Registry Administrators, which is the registrant for Virtualbox. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~registry Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~registry More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

