[oe] Using bitbake in minimal chroot environment

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 19:43 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:

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> On a recent intel/amd cpu VMs I can't measure much difference between VM
> and non-vm builds.
> My main buildmachine at work is an ubuntu 8.04LTS vm running under
> windows XP. The only major speedup I can get building in a native
> install would be using 64bit, since the VM is 32 bit, but it does expose
> both CPU cores :)

What are you (and everyone else saying it's fine) running the VM with?
I've got people reporting just unusable build times inside VMs on what
should be reasonable hardware.  That said, I've profiled some builds and
seen that IO is not a bottleneck (stuff like waiting for virtual/libc to
stage and gcc-cross to get populated is).

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Tom Rini <tom_rini at mentor.com>
Mentor Graphics Corporation