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Re:I replaced grub with systemd-boot by rfoo on Friday February 17, 2023 @08:26AM (#34834370)
My preferred distro is Debian.

Use linux-image-cloud; use a modern hypervisor with no legacy devices (only virtio etc); use tiny-initramfs; mask systemd-networkd-wait-online.service; add cryptomgr.notests noreplace-smp to kernel command line.

I think that's all, and use a moderately fast CPU (i7-8700K which is already 5 years old).

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Re:I replaced grub with systemd-boot by alias_neo on Sunday February 19, 2023 @03:53PM (#34861757)
Amazing, thanks for the reply! Debian is my preferred base so I'll give this a try!

When you say modern hypervisor, do you mean, not KVM? How do you get around the UEFI/BIOS post time which is usually a few seconds by itself?

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Re:I replaced grub with systemd-boot by bityard on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @02:11PM (#34885489)
rfoo is saying that their VMs boot in under 2 seconds, not the hypervisor host.
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Re:I replaced grub with systemd-boot by alias_neo on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @05:41AM (#34893910)
I didn't ask about the Hypervisor host.

I'm talking about the time taken by OMVF/SeaBIOS or whatever equivalent in the VM; which is why I asked about the type of VM/Hypervisor because that might not apply.

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