[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Guest boot loader support
Attached is an updated version of the patch to add boot loader support for guest domains. Changes from the initial set of patches: * Per Ian's request, adds an option to specify booting a specific kernel from the host domain (you can specify it either with the title of the boot loader config entry or with the grub 0-based index) * Reduces some of the code duplication for finding out what the virtual disk to boot off of is * Improved error handling to use the standard Xen logging and error facilities At this point, I think that we handle the use cases where a user just wants to have everything specified from within the guest domain, creating a domain with xm create and wanting to be able to interactively select a kernel and asking for a specific entry from the grub.conf to be booted when creating a domain. Future things (which I think are fine to do after the initial pass is committed) include * Reworking to use the planned new console infrastructure [1] * Handling whole disks * More filesystem support -- the code is generic and has all the hooks, I just haven't delved deep enough into any of the other fs libraries * Further improvements for the menu interface Signed-off-by: Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx> Jeremy [1] And I foolishly told Ian I'd start a discussion about this last week and still haven't. Hopefully tonight. Attachment:
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