RE: [Xen-devel] boot loaders for domain != 0

["Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I know that one doesn't need a bootloader for domains != 0.  
> However, I 
> have a desire to configure a system this way (to make it a 
> good facimily 
> of a bare metal system) and am wondering what if any support for boot 
> loaders there might be?  I presume that there is no BIOS 
> available when 
> running on 'xen virtualised hardware'.  Is there anything 
> even similar 
> available or planned.  How hard might it be?

I think you could get most of this functionality by allowing the
location of the kernel to be specified as a file within one of the
guests virtual disks (assuming dom0 knows how to mount the root file
system).

We could also access a config file within the guest's virtual disk that
could be used to override a subset of the config parameters (e.g.
command line, kernel image name etc).

E.g.: 

  kernel = phy:vg01/myvm//boot/vmlinuz.gz

This would mount mount /dev/vg01/myvm, copy out the kernel file to /tmp,
unmount the partition, then use the kernel in /tmp as the image.

Volunteers? :-)

Thanks,
Ian


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