Sounds like a VirtualBox problem. I'm using Hyper-V and I can connect through XRDP to a GUI Ubuntu 22 in 10 seconds and I can SSH into a Ubuntu 22 server in 3

Sounds like a VirtualBox problem. I'm using Hyper-V and I can connect through XRDP to a GUI Ubuntu 22 in 10 seconds and I can SSH into a Ubuntu 22 server in 3 seconds after start.