EVE Taking Forever to Initialize

[woodlandtoga]

eve-ng is currently taking a very long time 10+ minutes to boot from the splash page and is not finding a DHCP IP address like it did before. Prior to the current version of EVE-NG, I was able to boot quickly in vmware workstation player 16 without issues.

OS/Software Settings:
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- vmware workstation player 16.0.0
- Windows 10 Pro 19041.1165
- EVE-NG Ready to go OVF version 2.0.3-112
- VT-x Enabled

Virtual Machine Settings:
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Memory: 8GB

Processors: 4
[x] Virtualize Intel VT-x
[x] Virtualize CPI performance counters

Hard Disk (SCSI): 50 GB

Network Adapter: Bridged


Hardware:
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CPU: Intel i7-10700K
Motherboard: Intel Z490 chip
RAM: 32GB G.Skill Ripjaws
Storage: Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1TB

It stays like the attached photo for quite a long time before booting. I have no idea what could be causing it up until this point.

The following logs do not have any contents:

/opt/unetlab/data/Logs/access.txt
/opt/unetlab/data/Logs/error.txt

[woodlandtoga]

This was solved thanks to Uldis' help. If you see this issue, it is because EVE is looking for an IP address and will time out after a period of time. Once your network is able to assign an IP to EVE, it will load quickly without issues.

Thanks Uldis!