Without a license, the Cisco IOS XRv 9000 Router is rate-limited to , making it useful for basic control plane learning but not for data plane performance testing. Production images require a license, while the demo image is specifically for evaluation and learning. To deploy a production image in simulation mode, supported hypervisors are VMWare ESXi 5.0 or later, or QEMU 1.0.
The first boot of IOS XRv is slow. It needs to initialize the filesystem and generate keys.
Use a tool like 7-Zip or the tar command to extract the .vmdk file from the .ova package.