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ISO Boot QEMU Benchmark

Test: Samaris OS Alpha One RC — x86-64 FULL ISO
Date: 2026-05-18T09:07:36Z
Host: Darwin Khaleds-MacBook-Air.local (Apple M3, macOS 24.1.0)

Configuration

Parameter Value
VM Engine QEMU x86_64 (q35 machine)
RAM 8192 MB
vCPUs 4
ISO Samaris-OS-Alpha-One-RC - x86-64 FULL.iso
ISO Size 5.0 GB
Boot method Direct kernel boot (+initrd) via QEMU
Kernel cmdline boot=live components console=ttyS0,115200n8 loglevel=7 systemd.show_status=1

Boot Performance

Metric Value
Linux Kernel 7.992s
Userspace 39.051s
Total Boot 47.043s
graphical.target 38.380s (userspace)
Serial log lines 1534
Auto-login ✅ user/user

System Health

Metric Value
Kernel Panics 0
Kernel Oops/BUG 0
Failed units 0
System Status running
Clocksource tsc

Operating System

Property Value
OS Debian GNU/Linux 13 (Trixie)
Kernel Linux 6.12.88+ deb13-amd64
Architecture x86_64

CPU

Property Value
Model QEMU Virtual CPU version 2.5+
Cores 4
Frequency ~1000 MHz

Memory

Metric Value
Total 7.8 GiB (8138036 kB)
Free 5.4 GiB (5671288 kB)
Available 7.1 GiB (7364896 kB)
Cached 1.9 GiB
Swap 0 B (none configured)

Filesystem

Mount Type Size Used Use%
/dev/sr0 (ISO) iso9660 5.1G 5.1G 100%
/run/live/rootfs/filesystem.squashfs squashfs 4.9G 4.9G 100%
overlay (root) overlay 3.9G 43M 2%
/run/user/1000 tmpfs 795M 36K 1%

Running VOLT Services (8)

All VOLT system daemons are active and running:

Service Description
volt-kernel.service Samaris Kernel Bridge (Kernel A)
volt-kernel-b.service Tesseract Engine (boot mode)
volt-ram-manager.service RAM Manager
volt-gpu-manager.service GPU Orchestration Layer
volt-usb-manager.service Journaled Storage Manager
volt-worker-pool.service Dynamic Worker Pool
volt-unifier.service Kernel A Integrated Health Watchdog
volt-display-manager.service Display Detection & Apply
volt-display-hotplug.service Display Hotplug Watcher

Adaptive System Config (ASC) Output

[kernel_b]
workers = 2

[worker_pool]
min_workers = 2
max_workers = 2
desktop_min = 1
system_min = 1
orbit_default_max = 1
orbit_burst_max = 2
orbit_burst_window_ms = 500

[vrm]
desktop_quota_mb = 496
orbit_quota_mb = 1986
cache_mb = 256

[vum]
cache_mb = 496
buffer_mb = 248

Storage Layout

Block Device Size Type Mount
loop0 4.9G loop (squashfs) /run/live/rootfs/filesystem.squashfs
sr0 5.1G rom (iso9660) /run/live/medium

Network

Interface IP State
lo 127.0.0.1/8 UP
enp0s2 10.0.2.15/24 UP (DHCP)

Top Processes by Memory

Process Memory CPU%
Electron (main) 2.7% (222 MB) ~40%
Electron (renderer) 2.7% (220 MB) ~65%
Electron (GPU) 1.4% (116 MB) ~70%
Node.js Kernel A 1.0% (83 MB) ~24%
Xorg 0.8% (71 MB) ~4%

Known Issues

  1. gpasswd "Permission denied": user could not be added to groups video and input at boot (non-critical)
  2. dmesg not accessible: Operation not permitted for unprivileged user
  3. journalctl limited: Some journal files not opened due to insufficient permissions

Comparisons

Metric Previous (4GB RAM ISO) This Run (8GB RAM FULL) Delta
Kernel 10.741s 7.992s -2.75s
Userspace 37.763s 39.051s +1.29s
Total 48.5s 47.043s -1.46s
graphical.target N/A 38.380s —
Failed units N/A 0 ✅
Running services 6 9 VOLT services ✅

Files

File Description
serial-raw.log Full serial console trace (1534 lines)
diag-output.txt Raw diagnostic output
qemu-debug.log QEMU debug trace
iso-boot-qemu.md This report

Generated by Samaris OS ISO Performance Benchmark v2