RE: [Xen-devel] PVM guests and p[yv]grub and the extra= parameter

["Dan Magenheimer" <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> > > Instead, would for instance being able to set the menu
> > > entry to be activated by default be ok?
> >
> > That would be nice too, but doesn't replace the niceness
> > of being able to alter the booting behavior of a pv guest
> > without ever mucking with grub interactive edits or grub
> > configuration files.
> 
> Another possibility would be to provide the menu.lst as a ramdisk.  We
> keep the confinment of grub inside the domain, but still provide full
> configurability.

That's a neat solution.  Still not as clean as an extra=
vm.cfg parameter though.  (Think about instructing a novice
user over the phone how to construct a grub.conf file from
scratch!)  But it's much better than the other alternatives.

Dan


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