At Dienstag, 12. Januar 2010 12:27 Chris Brannon wrote: > Yes, I've noticed that the ./configure step is especially painful, > because of all of the little test programs that it compiles. > Running ./configure for a small project took the good part of half an hour. Do you use virtio in your vm? http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Boot_from_virtio_block_device If you use disklabels in your vm (menu.lst, fstab) than you have only to change your start script. This helps a lot but sure it can't replace fast hardware. See you, Attila