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Re: [Xen-devel] PyGRUB booting a ISO image...

To: Thiago Camargo Martins Cordeiro <thiagocmartinsc@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] PyGRUB booting a ISO image...
From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:53:57 +0100
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Thiago Camargo Martins Cordeiro, le Thu 18 Dec 2008 01:43:25 -0200, a écrit :
>  Can I use PyGRUB to boot an ISO image (with vmlinuz plus Xen guest support
> builtin) and start installation inside a PVM Domain?!

That'd be quite hard to do it completely automatically, as the guest
provides a bootloader that assumes a full BIOS etc. for its basic IO.

You can however extract the kernel, initrd and kernel parameters from
the ISO and give them in your xen configuration file.

Samuel

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