I have just noticed that the virtual disk for the system was allocated with

qemu-img create -f qcow Debian10.qcow 200G

where the intended allocation would be with

qemu-img create -f qcow2 Debian10.qcow2 200G

When I allocated the disk in the intended way, formatting proceeded much faster. This bug can be closed as 'user error'.

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