mkosi for test image builds#4539
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… if different disk filesystems are used.
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Looking forward to it, the current build step is slooooooooowwww |
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It's significantly faster than
mkarchiso, and produce smaller images in general.The downside might be that
mkosiuse case is probably not this.The current limiting factor is that I have no idea how to get
mkosito boot the disk image afterarchinstallhas done it's thing. But using this to test installs works fine if done with:You could manually craft a
qemu-system-x86_64command line, but the whole point of swapping tomkosiwould be that it would allow us to do:And both build with the latest/given
archinstall, and also facilitate a qemu "builder" that matches whatever we built.Currently exploring ways of booting the
archinstall'd system: Torxed/mkosi@6f3c208