> On 23 Feb 2024, at 20:17, Jo Durchholz <j...@durchholz.org> wrote: > > I see the boot process from a vanilla VM-IMAGES image takes multiple seconds; > can this be sped up to just a few seconds, or do I need to run the setup and > create a VM snapshot at which the VM starts for each test run?
If an Amazon firecracker environment works for you, there’s https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2023-04-2023-06/boot-performance/ of course, there’s more to booting than the kernel. I’d guess some of those improvements could apply to more generic VM hypervisors too. - Mark
