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RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] New tree issues (domU restartanddomVTibootissues)

To: "Tristan Gingold" <tgingold@xxxxxxx>, "Alex Williamson" <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] New tree issues (domU restartanddomVTibootissues)
From: "Zhang, Xing Z" <xing.z.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:06:53 +0800
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>>    I can see now why you wanted to store the nvram based on disk
image
>> path, it's a similar idea to storing the nvram in the guest EFI
>> partition.  If the nvram is stored in the dom0 fs, using domain name
>> seems like the easiest approach, but I still like the idea of having
the
>> nvram stored in the guest image.
>
>I don't really like the idea of saving NVRAM on the disk.  Real
machines
>don't do that so why should we do that.
>If you really want to save NVRAM, an EFI tool can do the work.
>
[Zhang, Xing Z] 
Do you mean save NVRAM to guest image then use EFI tool to do load/save
? It's the best way if we can get the tool and integrate it into our
GFW. 

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