> I see a delay after all packages are installed as well sometimes and I > think this has something to do with post-install jobs that have to be done. > How big is your boot partition? I see a huge delay as well, and I think it's unrelated to %post. I've timed my kickstart file %post section and it completes within seconds, whereas it takes a long time (5m? 10m?) before it even gets to %post. That's on a real machine, not kvm, though.