Improve setup performance

[yonas]

My first suggestion to improve performance is to use a pre-made image with everything already installed.

Looking at the logs, it seems a lot of Ubuntu packages are installed. Have these packages pre-installed.

[Neilpang]

what packages do you want?
There is a disk limit in the github runner. we can not do it too big.

[yonas]

> Importing VM
...
The following additional packages will be installed:
    cpu-checker gir1.2-atk-1.0 gir1.2-ayatanaappindicator3-0.1
    gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0 gir1.2-gtk-3.0 gir1.2-gtk-vnc-2.0 gir1.2-gtksource-4
    gir1.2-harfbuzz-0.0 gir1.2-libosinfo-1.0 gir1.2-libvirt-glib-1.0
    gir1.2-pango-1.0 gir1.2-spiceclientglib-2.0 gir1.2-spiceclientgtk-3.0
    gir1.2-vte-2.91 gstreamer1.0-plugins-base gstreamer1.0-plugins-good
    gstreamer1.0-x i965-va-driver ibverbs-providers intel-media-va-driver
    ipxe-qemu ipxe-qemu-256k-compat-efi-roms libaa1 libasyncns0 libavc1394-0
    libayatana-appindicator3-1 libayatana-ido3-0.4-0 libayatana-indicator3-7
    libboost-iostreams1.74.0 libboost-thread1.74.0 libbrlapi0.8 libcaca0
    libcacard0 libcdparanoia0 libdaxctl1 libdecor-0-0 libdecor-0-plugin-1-cairo
    libdv4 libfdt1 libflac8 libgfapi0 libgfrpc0 libgfxdr0 libglusterfs0
    libgovirt-common libgovirt2 libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0
    libgstreamer-plugins-good1.0-0 libgtk-vnc-2.0-0 libgtksourceview-4-0
    libgtksourceview-4-common libgvnc-1.0-0 libibverbs1 libiec61883-0
    libigdgmm12 libiscsi7 libjack-jackd2-0 libmp3lame0 libmpg123-0 libndctl6
    libnl-route-3-200 libnss-mymachines libopus0 liborc-0.4-0 libosinfo-1.0-0
    libpangoxft-1.0-0 libpcsclite1 libphodav-2.0-0 libphodav-2.0-common libpmem1
    libpmemobj1 libpulse0 librados2 libraw1394-11 librbd1 librdmacm1
    librest-0.7-0 libsamplerate0 libsdl2-2.0-0 libshout3 libsndfile1
    libsoup-gnome2.4-1 libspeex1 libspice-client-glib-2.0-8
    libspice-client-gtk-3.0-5 libspice-server1 libtag1v5 libtag1v5-vanilla
    libtheora0 libtpms0 libtwolame0 liburing2 libusbredirhost1
    libusbredirparser1 libv4l-0 libv4lconvert0 libva-x11-2 libva2
    libvirglrenderer1 libvirt-clients libvirt-daemon
    libvirt-daemon-config-network libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter
    libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu libvirt-daemon-system-systemd libvirt-glib-1.0-0
    libvirt-glib-1.0-data libvirt0 libvisual-0.4-0 libvorbisenc2 libvpx7
    libvte-2.91-0 libvte-2.91-common libwavpack1 libxml2-utils libxv1 mdevctl
    mesa-va-drivers msr-tools osinfo-db ovmf python3-cairo python3-gi-cairo
    python3-libvirt python3-libxml2 qemu-block-extra qemu-system-common
    qemu-system-data qemu-system-gui qemu-utils seabios
    spice-client-glib-usb-acl-helper swtpm swtpm-tools systemd-container
    va-driver-all virt-viewer virtinst
...
Fetched 60.8 MB...

There is a disk limit in the github runner. we can not do it too big.

The compressed size of all these packages is only 61MB. Hopefully that won't exceed the GitHub limit.

[yonas]

Also, if all these packages will be pre-installed, we can avoid running apt-update all-together in Debian.

[Neilpang]

how ?