Speed up VM create with work seeds

Beat VM create wall time without changing VM semantics.

Generate a work-seed ext4 sidecar during image builds and rootfs rebuilds, then clone and resize that seed for each new VM instead of rebuilding /root from scratch. Plumb the new seed artifact through config, runtime metadata, store state, runtime-bundle defaults, doctor checks, and default-image reconciliation so older images still fall back cleanly.

Add a daemon TAP pool to keep idle bridge-attached devices warm, expose stage timing in lifecycle logs, add a create/SSH benchmark script plus Make target, and teach verify.sh that tap-pool-* devices are reusable capacity rather than cleanup leaks.

Validated with go test ./..., make build, ./verify.sh, and make bench-create ARGS="--runs 2".
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Thales Maciel 2026-03-18 21:22:12 -03:00
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@ -42,12 +42,14 @@ type DaemonConfig struct {
NamegenPath string
CustomizeScript string
VSockPingHelperPath string
DefaultWorkSeed string
AutoStopStaleAfter time.Duration
StatsPollInterval time.Duration
MetricsPollInterval time.Duration
BridgeName string
BridgeIP string
CIDR string
TapPoolSize int
DefaultDNS string
DefaultImageName string
DefaultRootfs string
@ -64,6 +66,7 @@ type Image struct {
Managed bool `json:"managed"`
ArtifactDir string `json:"artifact_dir,omitempty"`
RootfsPath string `json:"rootfs_path"`
WorkSeedPath string `json:"work_seed_path,omitempty"`
KernelPath string `json:"kernel_path"`
InitrdPath string `json:"initrd_path,omitempty"`
ModulesDir string `json:"modules_dir,omitempty"`