Using actual VMs to build VMs is slow and error-prone (you need to use
VNC to see what is going on, and booting takes over +110 seconds as we
wait to be sure Arch Linux is ready).

build.sh can build all three images in ~135 seconds (assuming all the
packages is cached), we still need to use a VM for the actually building
in GitLab CI (as that is the only safe way it can be done at the
moment), which is a bit slower (~22 min vs ~13 min (Packer)), but that
isn't really a big issue.

In the future we can hopefully switch to Kate Containers[1] and reduce
the build time significantly.

[1] infrastructure#108

Perform publish via cli instead of packer

See merge request archlinux/arch-boxes!119

Build the VirtualBox image with the qemu builder and convert it

Closes #108 and #106

See merge request archlinux/arch-boxes!114

Kristian Klausen authored Aug 15, 2020 and Sven-Hendrik Haase committed Aug 16, 2020

Fix #108

Attempt to use tcg instead of kvm as qemu accelerator

Closes #106

See merge request archlinux/arch-boxes!115

If SSH doesn't come up in 30 min then it's busted for sure.

Kristian Klausen authored Aug 01, 2020 and Sven-Hendrik Haase committed Aug 16, 2020

This only affect the qemu and virtualbox image. I'm not sure how you
enable trim support in VMware and the documentation is spare.

Tested with: packer build -only=qemu local.json
698M	Arch-Linux-x86_64-libvirt-2020-08-01.box <- before
425M	Arch-Linux-x86_64-libvirt-2020-08-01.box <- after

Fix #106