On Wed, 2016-08-31 at 12:33 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: > One possibility is to do a bit of a hybrid - instead of having a > separate "bootstrap" image, we could build the images using the copy- > in method, then boot the images themselves to a special systemd > target to self-update them.
I tried prototyping this out as well, the timings I got were: Creating initial image: 2m13s Updating that image: 51s The update is a bit slower than using a separate bootstrap image because you have to boot the VM twice: step 1: boot with the old version, deploy the new version step 2: boot the new version, remove the old deployment The separate boot slows things down by about 10s on this system. It's still a significant speedup - on build.gnome.org it would mean that tests would start running after a commit 5 minutes or so faster. - Owen _______________________________________________ gnome-os-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-os-list
