Improve first and subsequent boot time for finch

[Brijeshrpatel9]

Finch vm takes long time compare to other tools like Docker. We are using finch for internal project. We want to improve user experience by decreasing finch vm command boot time. This applies to first boot time and subsequent boot time.

[KevinLiAWS]

Hi @Brijeshrpatel9, thanks for the feedback. Finch has some ongoing improvements for the vm boot time, and may have a minor release soon to improve it. We will keep you updated once it is ready.

[KevinLiAWS]

Hi @Brijeshrpatel9, with the new release 0.6.1, there is some optimization when using MacOS 13 and “vmType” to “vz” in the configuration: https://github.com/runfinch/finch#configuration We still look into other optimization to improve the vm boot experience. Thanks

[pendo324]

v0.7.0 should improve boot times for vmType: qemu (which is the default option). There's a couple more future changes that we have in mind to further improve boot times, but the changes that were just released should take you down to around 30-40 seconds for a fresh init, regardless of vmType. These improvement can be seen on the benchmarks page.

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