Re: [Xen-devel] multiboot-like domain building?

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Keir Fraser, le Wed 03 Jan 2007 14:55:30 +0000, a écrit :
> On 2/1/07 23:12, "Samuel Thibault" <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > I'm currently porting Mach to Xen, and I need to preload several Mach
> > modules and give them command lines.  The limited "ramdisk" feature of
> > Xen doesn't permits this.  Maybe xen's domain building process could
> > include a notion of module with associated command line?  For instance,
> > a bit like grub's multiboot module syntax:
> > 
> > modules = [ "/foo/bar arg1 arg2", "/baz arg3" ]
> 
> Fine. You could load them into contiguous memory with a header on the front,
> and call the whole thing a 'ramdisk'. Then your changes to Mach start of day
> can simply unpack the 'ramdisk' and set up module metadata inside Mach as
> necessary.

I would be fine with that.

Samuel

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