Description

I use rapido quite a bit for kernel testing. It's basically some crude wrappers around Dracut and QEMU. Dracut is used for dependency gathering and initramfs generation, but it's quite heavyweight and slow. Sangeetha and I have implemented a rust-based alternative: https://github.com/rapido-linux/rapido/pull/258

The rust-based implementation still needs a bit of work before it can be merged.

Goals

• optionally boot with systemd as init, instead of only rapido-init
• clean up interface before locking it in (parameter naming, etc.)
• think about distro packaging / path assumptions
  • at the moment, it assumes bins are in target/release/* and conf is in the working directory
• improve test coverage