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Use VM runners[1] for building

Kristian Klausen requested to merge klausenbusk/archiso:vm-runner into master

Building inside a TCG accelerated qemu VM is slow and painful, but it is the only option when running in a non-privileged container.

arch-boxes has been built inside a KVM accelerated VMs ("VM runner") for over 11 months[2] and recently the MR[1] was merged into the infrastructure repo. With it now being a official part of arch's infrastructure we should switch to it and get much faster builds.

Doing some quick testing, the whole pipeline is now roughly ~29-84 minutes faster (taking between 7-9 minutes, instead of 36-93 minutes).

[1] infrastructure!385 (merged) [2] arch-boxes@3bda5b26

Fix #161 (closed)

Edited by Kristian Klausen

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