Re: [PATCH] kunit: tool: Use qboot on QEMU x86_64
From: Brendan Jackman
Date: Fri Jan 31 2025 - 06:20:06 EST
On Fri, 31 Jan 2025 at 09:45, David Gow <davidgow@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> One future idea would be to look into microvms, which might be even
> faster. I'll give myself a TODO to experiment with those.
Yeah, that would be cool although I think they require CONFIG_PARAVIRT
which isn't an entirely negligible constraint. Still, microvm doesn't
have to be mandatory.
Anyway, I don't personally think that startup speed is a big issue for
KUnit right now, I only mentioned it as a nice freebie for qboot, the
terminal garbage was my only real motivator.
> This'll go in post-rc1, but nevertheless, it's:
> Reviewed-by: David Gow <davidgow@xxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks!