Daniel Veillard wrote:
[...] Give more RAM to the guest, 380MBytes intead of the 256MB minimum speed up thing a lot. Then reduce memory, see the previous posts on this list about this.
Hmm, it turned out that using a local mirror somebody made available for me made it a lot faster. Unfortunately this wasn't possible to see esaily. But one more reason was that I didn't know that I have to be very careful because fc5 trys to install a lot of software by default. Even removing all software selections I still get a 470MB installation. But that seems to be a fedora generic question and has nothing to do with xen.
Henning