On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 02:11:20PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > I noticed also with libguestfs that boot times have spiralled out of > control again, and it seems to be down to the SeaBIOS change. SeaBIOS > accounts for _9_ seconds of the boot sequence, up from very small > (fraction of a second) for the old Bochs BIOS[1].
I'm surprised - a significant amount of effort has gone into making SeaBIOS boot quickly. On my machine, the OS starts loading in well under a second. I'm not familiar with libguestfs - is that doing something to alter the hardware emulation? -Kevin
