[arch-general] building x86_64 packages under qemu?

[Attila]

At Dienstag, 12. Januar 2010 12:27 Chris Brannon wrote:

> Yes, I've noticed that the ./configure step is especially painful,
> because of all of the little test programs that it compiles.
> Running ./configure for a small project took the good part of half an hour.

Do you use virtio in your vm?

http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Boot_from_virtio_block_device

If you use disklabels in your vm (menu.lst, fstab) than you have only to change 
your start script.

This helps a lot but sure it can't replace fast hardware.

See you, Attila