Mathieu Othacehe skribis:
>> Wow! Why did it take 2h30? Do you have KVM?
>
> Yes, I'm not sure why it's so long. It seems that
> "estimated-partition-size" takes a large proportion of this time,
> because if I run the same command with a fixed disk-image size it goes
> faster.
Ooooh, I had never
Howdy!
Mathieu Othacehe skribis:
> I made some progress on the image generation topic. As discussed
> previously, the goal is to use the same principles as genimage[1], to
> achieve faster image generation, without resorting to VM.
Awesome.
> A very related topic, is to bring the
Hi!
Mathieu Othacehe skribis:
> This command:
>
> guix system disk-image --file-system-type=iso9660
> gnu/system/examples/bare-bones.tmpl
>
> takes,
>
> * Without zisofs compression, on host: 4min
> * With zisofs compression, on host: 8min
> * With zisofs, on VM: 19min (master)
Nice!
> This m
> Wow! Why did it take 2h30? Do you have KVM?
Yes, I'm not sure why it's so long. It seems that
"estimated-partition-size" takes a large proportion of this time,
because if I run the same command with a fixed disk-image size it goes
faster.
Mathieu
> * Add support for ISO images.
For ISO images, by running make-iso9660-image directly on the host (see
wip-disk-image branch), I have a considerable time decrease.
This command:
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guix system disk-image --file-system-type=iso9660
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 08:59:31PM +0200, Mathieu Othacehe wrote:
> On my computer, this takes 6m50 versus 2h30 for the master version. I
> tested the image in QEMU, everything seems fine.
Wow! Why did it take 2h30? Do you have KVM?
Hello,
I made some progress on the image generation topic. As discussed
previously, the goal is to use the same principles as genimage[1], to
achieve faster image generation, without resorting to VM.
A very related topic, is to bring the possibility to create Guix System
images with custom
