Would it be good to show: guestfish > commands then the same commands on the same image in some language binding. --------------------- Reduce boot time: (1) Create a qemu wrapper. (2) Use -L option. (3) In put just the ROMs actually needed to boot: bios.bin linuxboot.bin vapic.bin vgabios-cirrus.bin FUTURE: Identify which ROMs induce what amount of delay. The four above give ~ 1 second delay. gPXE adds a 4-5 second delay. Another unknown ROM adds another 4-5 seconds. --> actually pxe-virtio.bin Rewrite libguestfs-supermin-helper so: (4) Avoids 512 byte reads. (5) Avoids multiple globs on the same directory.