diff --git a/templates b/templates
index 13f3bd8b..3e4d0d4e 100755
--- a/templates
+++ b/templates
@@ -4181,7 +4181,7 @@
                         { key => "QEMUVGA", value => "std" },
                         { key => "QEMURAM", value => 3072 },
                         { key => "QEMUCPU", value => "host" },
-                        { key => "TIMEOUT_SCALE", value => "5" },
+                        { key => "TIMEOUT_SCALE", value => "1.5" },
                         { key => "SERIALDEV", value => "ttyAMA0" },
                         { key => "UEFI", value => "1"},
                         { key => "PART_TABLE_TYPE", value => "gpt"},