feat: optimize QEMU microVM startup time and resource usage #2345
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- Disable virtio console and serial output in non-debug builds to reduce boot time and memory overhead - Add x-option-roms=off to microvm machine type to skip option ROM loading - Add kernel boot optimizations: tsc=reliable, no_timer_check, cryptomgr.notests, rcupdate.rcu_expedited=1 - Simplify disk drive config to use aio=threads uniformly across platforms This improves boot time for the microvm Ref OS-251 Signed-off-by: Luca Di Maio <[email protected]>
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Thank you Luca! Postfix and hello world failures are unrelated to the changes made |
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This improves boot time for the microvm
Ref OS-251