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looking at "finished" lines of a successful minimalx, I found that installation is done after 12 minutes, but then consoletests take another 30 minutes.

fast, reliable, non-interactive tests like mtab, sshd, glibc_i686 and textinfo can easily be scripted to speed things up

e.g. see the openqa v1 version in
http://manyboxes.opensuse.org/openqa/qatests/fasttest1.sh

called via
http://manyboxes.opensuse.org/openqa/perl/autoinst/consoletest.d/100_fasttest1.pm

One downside could be that it is not as easy to figure out why this script is failing - can be countered by putting more work into the script.

This idea could even be extended to interactive tests, where the downloaded script reduces the shell typing parts but waits for os-autoinst to trigger interactive parts.