why does xp take hours to install on my Mac

I cant think that this is normal when it gets to nearly the end of the install and says "saving settings" and ten minutes to go in about 10 minutes it says 9 minutes to go
so the last 10 minutes is taking literally well over and hour to complete !
I also had alot of problems with the beta 3, and whenever i went to make and install a VM of XP pro or 98 it would lock up while formating the drive in the VM. I am still waiting for this install to finish ! I hope it does and i can use it

Is this being seen by anyone else ?

all settings are stock settings though for some reason this beta complained that I had too much memory allocated and it would possibly slow the system down. It was set at the default settings and I changed nothing even when it complained. it recommending 32 megs which seems very small ? I did a quick format with fat 32 dont know if that makes a difference but at least beta 4 got past that bit ok
This was a fresh install of osx so there was no hangover from the prevous version

any comments

 

I think your memory configuration is wrong. Please check and report here:

1. Menu Edit->Preferences tab Memory, Reserved memory limit value.
2. VM configuration memory value (32M as I understand from your previous message - it is not enough for XP).
3. Mac host memory amount.

PS: I think XP need at list 128M of memory.

 

It needs at least 64megs
I had it set at 256 and P always complains that it recommends 32 max which seems wierd My system has 1 gig in there I got it going finally! and have it at 380 megs now and running fine though I see the quirks that are beta I installed tools and helped alot though I cant get my head around the network or hard drives yet.

I belive the network side of things is not good yet ?
It sees my router and sees my powerbook but cant access it I wont see the internet connection through the router either. Maybe I need to work on it bu hey at least it isnt getting a virus haha.
Seems to be stable and boots quickly and generally pretty fast for a mac mini
I have my hard drive set as 2 partitions one for bootcamp but it wont see anything outside it's own virtual drive which I assume is normal. All my apps are on that partition so I suppose I need to burn them to disk to try and install that way.

thanks for your time I can now see with a bit more work this is well worth the money so a big congradulations