Am 11.11.2017 um 12:31 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: >> Since a vm (sharing the host store) is unacceptable sloooooow, > Could you be more specific? I understand from Chris Baines’ measurement > some time ago that it’s definitely slower than a bare-metal system, but > I don’t find it “unacceptably slow” when it comes to testing stuff like > this (it’s definitely faster than building a standalone image with ‘guix > system vm-image’ anyway!). > See my posting at <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-10/msg00185.html>:
When sharing the host's store ("guix system vm …"), Plasma takes 80 seconds (minimum) to start up after log-in to X11, when clicking the menu-button, it takes 36 sec. for the menu to appear. This plain renders such a VM unusable even for testing. YMMV, but I call this in-acceptable and this is why I'm using a vm-image ("guix system vm-image …", which is much faster: Plase start-up 25 sec., Menu appears immediately. -- Regards Hartmut Goebel | Hartmut Goebel | h.goe...@crazy-compilers.com | | www.crazy-compilers.com | compilers which you thought are impossible |