Ext3 vs ext4 KVM

Is it normal that if you boot 3 virtual machine with windows xp, they will boot much faster if the filesystem of host is ext3 than ext4?

How make ext4 filesystem?
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I think the Ext4 wiki has the answers to all your questions 8)