Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Guest boot loader support

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 15:11, Jacob Gorm Hansen wrote:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > Attached is an updated version of the patch to add boot loader support
> > for guest domains.  
> 
> In relation to this, did anyone consider porting Grub to run inside a domU?

While it seems appealing, a large amount of the grub code is device
drivers, real mode boot strapping code, etc.

You'd probably get very little useful code from grub in porting it to
domU.

Regards,

> Jacob
> 
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