explain the probing eata on XXX issue

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+In some virtual machines (e.g. VirtualBox), "probing eata on XXX" may be
+quite long. This is apparently due to poor efficiency of the virtualizer, not
+Mach. There is no such issue on real hardware or using qemu/kvm.