Re: Best way to have a FreeBSD VM for automated testing?

Reply: Jo Durchholz : "Re: Best way to have a FreeBSD VM for automated testing?"
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From: Mark Blackman <mark_at_exonetric.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2024 06:41:40 UTC

> On 23 Feb 2024, at 20:17, Jo Durchholz <jo@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