It's a very small change to the installation medium, though. Your distribution already pre-selects hundreds of packages and performs configuration -- this can b

It's a very small change to the installation medium, though. Your distribution already pre-selects hundreds of packages and performs configuration -- this can be another one. I'm a little surprised the maintainers haven't done so - but I haven't actually used the workflow. The implementation appears transparent; it registers a format with the kernel. Maybe there are downsides. You hint at a very likely one - performance. QEMU can do remarkably well with virtualization... but this, I'm not sure. I'm hopeful! Anyway, with all that in mind... I think the point against requiring such extreme 'vertical integration' remains If the argument against these two commands is it, then it's extremely trivial to resolve.