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feat(archlinux): add Arch Linux basic VM image support#173

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@jfroche jfroche commented Apr 23, 2026

Use the official arch-boxes basic qcow2 image from geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com.

We tried to shorten the boot process by masking some unrelevant services but we still need ~30s to reach multi-user.target. With these masks, multi-user.target is reached ~3.9s after kernel boot. So the bottleneck is the kernel boot and initramfs.

Also updated scripts/update-images.py to resolve the latest arch-boxes release from geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com.

Use the official arch-boxes basic qcow2 image from geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com.

We tried to shorten the boot process by masking some unrelevant services
but we still need ~30s to reach multi-user.target.
With these masks, multi-user.target is reached ~3.9s after kernel boot
(systemd-analyze), down from failing to reach it at all. So the
bottleneck is the kernel boot and initramfs.

Also updated scripts/update-images.py to resolve the latest arch-boxes
release from geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com.
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