XP Super SLow to Install

[wcndave]

I have a 24 core AMD with 64GB RAM running off an NVMe drive, so expected a fairly rapid installation.

However, the "copying files" part of the process has been running for 12 hours now, and shows about 10% completed.
The XP setup screen says it will complete in 28 minutes, but it's said that since the start!

Any ideas about why this would be slow?

I have 2048 MB RAM allocation, 3 processors, Nested Paging Acceleration, 22MB Video Memory.

Running on VBox 7.0.10

I can provide more details, however I figured there might be a known/quick element to this install that I have not understood. (It's running as an unassisted install)

Thanks!

[mpack]

The number of cores you have shouldn't make any difference to this. More cores usually allow the host OS to do more things in parallel, not make any one thing go faster.

The usual reason for being this slow is having Hyper-v enabled on the host. And/or over-allocating cores to the guest OS.

But we can have a look at the recipe for your VM. Make sure the VM is fully shut down, then right click it in the manager UI. Select "Show Log" and save "VBox.log" (no other file) to a zip file. Attach the zip here.

[wcndave]

Thanks. It actually crashed now, so I shut it down and have the log file as requested.
I can confirm that hyper-v is not enabled.

DM-XP-2023-07-26-14-24-36.zip

(32.47 KiB) Downloaded 28 times

[mpack]

As suspected, Hyper-v is enabled on your system.

00:00:10.576927 NEM: info: Found optional import WinHvPlatform.dll!WHvQueryGpaRangeDirtyBitmap.
00:00:10.576935 NEM: info: Found optional import vid.dll!VidGetHvPartitionId.
00:00:10.576940 NEM: info: Found optional import vid.dll!VidGetPartitionProperty.
00:00:10.576987 NEM: WHvCapabilityCodeHypervisorPresent is TRUE, so this might work...

Hyper-v often interferes with other VM-ish products such as VirtualBox, and always slows it down. If you aren't intent on running WSL2 then you don't need Hyper-v. To get rid of it see HMR3Init: Attempting fall back to NEM (Hyper-V is active).

[wcndave]

Oh... cos I see this

hyper-v.jpg (92.73 KiB) Viewed 1806 times

[wcndave]

TL;DR

To get rid of it see HMR3Init: Attempting fall back to NEM (Hyper-V is active).

[wcndave]

Wow, from 12 hours+ to less than a minute!! thanks!