Re: Users can provide their own kernels? (Was: Re: [Xen-users] Basic Question)

[Sascha Retzki <sretzki@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 02:24:26PM +0100, Mark Williamson wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 June 2005 14:27, Andy Smith wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 01:11:44PM +0100, Mark Williamson wrote:
> > > You don't need a grub.conf in the guest but in the -unstable tree you can
> > > create one in the guest filesystem and get a bootloader prompt when you
> > > start the domain.  In this case, the guest kernel will need to be
> > > *inside* the guest filesystem for the bootloader to find it.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure but there may be some config options required to enable the
> > > guest bootloader.
> >
> > Does the above imply that in -unstable, users can provide their own
> > kernels?
> 
> Yes.  You just stick a grub.conf / menu.lst in the usual place and should 
> Just 
> Work.

Eh, maybe I did not get it completly: You mean I create a config-file using
disk = [ 'file:/...' ]
without a kernel= command? And it boots the first sectors like the BIOS would
do?

> 
> We're also working an another bootloader approach based on kexec but the 
> effect will be the same.

Hm can you elaborate that?

> 
> Cheers,
> Mark
> 
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