Hi!

On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 10:47:24 +0000
Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote:
> >Geert Stappers <stapp...@stappers.nl> wrote:
> >  
> >> What I would like to see,
> >> is more information how the measurement was done.
> >> 
> >> e.g. 
> >> * How busy was the host  
> >
> >It was running kde plasma 5 in startx, but otherwise had a lot of free RAM
> >and non-busy cores/CPUs. The system became a little unresponsive at times
> >during the install.
> >  
> >> * Which apt / yum  mirrors where used  
> >
> >None - they were a completely non-networked installs - local .iso only.  
> 
> Wow. That's really odd. Was there any particular piece that noticeably
> took time?
> 

The "installing the base system" and installing the other packages.

> I don't use Virtualbox myself, but I'm regularly using kvm to do test
> installations and it's really quick. Are you using exactly the same
> settings for Virtualbox as for the other distros you mentioned?

Yes. The defaults except for 20 GB disk, and vboxvga as display. I've now
tested a fresh x64 xfce https://manjaro.org/ install and it finished in less
than 20 minutes.

> 
> Pondering if there's a performance problem there with disk or network
> or CPU emulation maybe - difficult to tell. :-/
> 

ok.

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