I agree, this is very likely due to the issue of copying the default profile. I 
would add that this operation can also use a lot of I/O, so you may want to 
check on any latency issues with the backend storage system. Moving to a faster 
backend could help.

What I have actually done to get around this was to pre-create a user account 
(something like ‘vcluser’) and then disable it during the image capture stage. 
Then, before a user connects to a reservation, the vcld commands don’t actually 
create a new account, they simply enable the hidden account and then rename it 
to match the user’s id. I can enable this on an image-by-image basis.

This would not work if you expect to use roaming profiles or other 
configuration setting that would require that the default profile actually be 
copied each time.

-Aaron


On Jan 21, 2014, at 8:53 AM, Aaron Peeler <[email protected]> wrote:

> This sounds like it is related to the size of the default profile.
> 
> When the new user logs in for the first time a profile does not exist
> yet, so the default profile gets copied to the user's profile.
> 
> I suggest to first look at the default profile and see if there is
> anything that can be cleaned out.
> 
> Others on the list may have additional suggestions.
> 
> Aaron
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 12:50 AM, Cameron Seay <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I am using KVM and Windows  7 images.   For some reason the user images take
>> about 3 minutes to get past the Windows Welcome screen.  When I am in
>> editing mode for the same image, it takes 10 seconds or less to get past the
>> Welcome screen.  Image load time is fine ( > 1 minute).  We have 4 GB of RAM
>> allocated to the image in question. Once the image loads, performance is
>> fine.    Any ideas?
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> 
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