Re: [Xen-users] XenU boot loader?

["M.A. Williamson" <maw48@xxxxxxxxx>]

> I'm wondering is there any kind of bootloader for XenU?
The unstable tree has "pygrub" which does what you want.

In the longer term, we'd like to get kexec support for domUs (there's a 
patch for this, out-of-tree waiting for control messages to go away) and 
use this to implement a bootloader (i.e. boot a "loader" kernel and get 
*that* to mount your filesystem and boot the proper kernel).
The current plan is to use KBoot (http://kboot.sf.net) as the domU 
bootloader when it becomes available. There's also a basic bootloader 
Anthony Liguouri posted a few months back.
Cheers,
Mark

> Synchronising kernel bits between that which is configured for a 
> particular guest on xen0 and the guest itself is tedious and 
> error-prone.
> It'd be handy if there was some kind of 2stage boot process so as 
> reduce this inter-dependence.
> It's particularly problematic with Linux guests, which typically use 
> lots of modules. Misconfiguration, especially where the guest is 
> missing the modules, can result in things like firewalling on a guest 
> failing to start, etc.
> Would it be useful to have a XenU bootloader??
>
> regards,
_______________________________________________
Xen-users mailing list
Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users