[virt-tools-list] [PATCH] qemu:cpuid: speedup test by 3x times if grub2 is available

[Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues]

On 02/14/2013 11:41 AM, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
>> I'd glad to amend patch, if there are suggestions how to generalize it and
>> improve "create boot image" process for distros that doesn't have
>> grub2-mkrescue.
>
> A reusable tool/script would be useful even outside virt-test. Anybody
> who uses -kernel/-initrd today may want a more efficient solution (IIRC,
> virt-install uses -kernel/-initrd when installing from a Fedora
> repository URL).
>
> But if we made that an independent tool we would have the additional
> problem of having the new tool packaged and installed on the host. So
> having something specific inside virt-test makes sense by now.

Absolutely, agreed.