Geriatric wrote: It seems to me something is wrong as it at this rate it will take many more hours . How long should it take to create a VM of XP from a disc?
Well I just did a timed install of Windows XP Professional SP 3 install from an ISO Image and on my Mac it was finished and at a working Desktop in 9.5 minutes. However it will vary from system to system depending on a number of factors although it should be less then an hour on the slowest Mac that supports any version of VMware Fusion.
I'm running VMware Fusion 5.0.3 under OS X 10.8.3 on a 15-inch: 2.8GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 MacBook Pro with Retina display, 16GB 1600MHz memory and 768GB flash storage. I created/saved the VM to a USB 3.0 External Hard Drive.
