vMX 15,16,17 and vSRX NG (15) very slow booting

[slimy_cat]

Hello,
Finally I have my own sandbox for training, labs and playing with EVE. This is the HP DL360e Gen8 Intel E5 server with 48 GB ram & SSD Drive.
I installed there HP ESXi 6.0U3 and deployed the latest fresh EVE version. Almost everything looks fine, but when I tried to deploy vMX I noticed it is booting very slowly. It may take 10-15-20 minutes to boot the VCP (VFP loads fine).
I deployed the the same vMX version to ESXI directly and it loads several times faster.
vSRX-NG ver. 15 looks never boot up till the end, I can't wait while it boots finally. Even slower than vMX. Same story, boots faster under pure ESXi.
I would like to get any advice why vMX is soooo slowww?
Checked, nested virtualization is OK. No antivirus, of course. A lot of memory for Ubuntu and vMX instance.
Only one thing I notices, the QEMU emulates WDMA PIO harddisk, instead of ESXi (UDMA-33). Maybe, it is a problem? If so, how can I change the HDD controller type?
Thanks!

[Uldis (UD)]

you didnt tell what CPU model you have?
like Xeon 5680, or e5-2630..
and it is ture thos images are very heavy...
one vMX 17 boot time is about 7-8Mins

[slimy_cat]

Thanks UldiS,
CPUs are 2x E5-2450L

[mcat84]

nested environment always slightly slower.....if your main purposes is EVE-NG, you should try bare metal install....

[slimy_cat]

nested environment always slightly slower.....if your main purposes is EVE-NG, you should try bare metal install....

I know. The problem is that it is not "slightly slower", it is extremely slow.
I tried to run the VCP with virtual SCSI controller and connected the vHDD to that, so I found this load faster.
Used to run this command:

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/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -nographic -device e1000,netdev=net0,mac=50:01:00:05:00:00 -netdev tap,id=net0,ifname=vunl1_5_0,script=no -device e1000,netdev=net1,mac=50:01:00:05:00:01 -netdev tap,id=net1,ifname=vunl1_5_1,script=no -device virtio-scsi-pci,id=scsi -device scsi-hd,drive=hda -device scsi-hd,drive=hdb -device scsi-hd,drive=hdc -smp 2 -m 2048 -name vMX-VCP -uuid fc51e3ef-af3c-4f14-a420-e1772d4829da -drive if=none,id=hda,file=hda.qcow2 -drive if=none,id=hdb,file=hdb.qcow2 -drive if=none,id=hdc,file=hdc.qcow2 -machine type=pc,accel=kvm --enable-kvm -serial mon:stdio -nographic 

I don't know helps it or not, but I see the speed of booting up for vMX VCP 17.1

[Uldis (UD)]

http://www.eve-ng.net/index.php/documen ... -16-x-17-x