Hi On 07/23/2017 06:21 PM, Paul Angus wrote: > > I think that we should look at lighter Distros like Arch Linux in order to > get the boot times of the system VMs down. > That in conjunction with improving the configuration will gives as a much > leaner, meaner System VM.
I tend to -1 for Arch. Debian is a proven mature Distro. It is used as base for many critical systems e.g. VyOS or also cumulus OS, not to mention Ubuntu. Arch linux was not designed as a server OS. It has a rolling release policy and it is great if you want to use the latest releases, you have to update often. Because we usually do not update VR OS that often, Arch is IMHO not a good candidate. On the other hand Debian is a good one. I would also doubt that Arch "boots" faster than Debian. IMHO the ways _we_ configure the VR is still the performance killer. Let's stick with Debian.
