Installed Local, went through the setup and it hangs at “Adding Site, Provisioning MySQL”. The first time I got busy on something else and left it for almost an hour and it never completed, so I quit Local and started up again selected the site (the only site) and got this message: “WordPress does not exist in this site’s public directory.”
So I removed the site from Local Sites, removed the machine from Virtual Box and removed the Local directory from Application Support and started over. We’re now at about a half hour of provisioning MySQL, and no progress.