I had been suffering from the same problem, slow installation of Debian Etch within a virtual machine and DSC timeouts. However, after installing the kvm and virt-manager packages from TJ's PPA site (listed here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=876695) the problem appears to be completely resolved.
I had been suffering from the same problem, slow installation of Debian Etch within a virtual machine and DSC timeouts. However, after installing the kvm and virt-manager packages from TJ's PPA site (listed here: http:// ubuntuforums. org/showthread. php?t=876695) the problem appears to be completely resolved.