Improve the remote shell's performance by switching to a virtio channel
Originally created by @anonym on #11888 (Redmine)
Currently the serial link-based transfer of data between host and guest
is so slow (400 Kbaud) that I think we’ve consciously avoided adding
some useful features that depend on fast file IO, e.g. dumping the
output of tails-debugging-info
as a scenario failure artifact. Also,
the data transfer delay of the thousands of remote shell calls we do
each full test suite run add up, so I expect that run time will decrease
measurably.
Feature Branch: wip/11888-remote-shell-virtio-transport
Related issues
- Related to #11294 (closed)
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Blocked by #11887 (closed)